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		voltagex_ on July 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: In what creative ways are you using Makefi... What advantage does Stow give me over my current solution? I've always got git and make installed (but I'm not averse to adding something else).

db48x on July 25, 2017 [–]

One advantage would be not having to write "ln -s ..." for every file you want to link. Stow handles file trees as well.

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