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Thank you you for your work it is really nice !

I am using it on my desktop and the installation went well however now I want to
replicate this installation on my laptop and when I try to
dofiles clone https://myrepo.com /path/to/metadata

I have the following error :
fatal : working tree /home/myname already exists

I think I could go around this error with some option like --separate-git-dir but I am not sure and from your README I can't understand how to use your wrapper for this case.
Thank you in advance for your help

Hey!

Please add a license 👍

Dear Sir,

the sentence: symlink farms linking all your files into $HOME is ugly
is not objective.

Using symlinks from a version controlled repository in ${HOME} is secure and simple. Consider switching between configurations. It is easy with symlinks. And it allows for gradual merging and rebasing of changes after having switched to an entirely new base system that comes with some initial config already that you want to add your changes to.

Your work is interesting and functional. No worries. No offense meant. It is just that ugly is not valid argument. It is subjective.

Kind regards,
another Linux advocate; thanks for your work and quality support (forum & co). aurhelper looks helpful too

It'd be great if we could edit sparse files other than README.md, e.g. LICENSE.
I see that it's already implemented in alfunx/dotfiles.sh@4139c98.
What's missing is the ability to edit info/sparse-checkout to support other arbitrary files.