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GNU Stow is an amazing utility that manages your symlinks easily. I recently found out about GNU Stow and haven't looked back. With a git repository and gnu stow, you can manage your dotfiles with literally just one command.
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Chapters:
0:00 - intro
1:04 - what is gnu stow?
4:54 - what is a symlink?
8:00 - gnu stow and symlinks
8:40 - gnu stow naming convention
10:30 - stow our nvim and tmux configs