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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2024-01-28 22:05:33 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2024-01-28 22:50:49 +0100
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doc: Add index entries for “dot files” and “Stow”.
* doc/guix.texi (Essential Home Services): Add index entries. Change-Id: I0c3a5f5d94fe273c137eb3ca5fa6c5c91a34599b
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@@ -44216,10 +44216,12 @@ to use alternative services to implement more advanced use cases like
read-only home. Feel free to experiment and share your results.
@end defvar
+@cindex dot files in Guix Home
It is often the case that Guix Home users already have a setup for versioning
-their user configuration files (also known as @emph{dotfiles}) in a single
+their user configuration files (also known as @emph{dot files}) in a single
directory, and some way of automatically deploy changes to their user home.
+@cindex Stow-like dot file management
The @code{home-dotfiles-service-type} from @code{(gnu home services dotfiles)}
is designed to ease the way into using Guix Home for this kind of users,
allowing them to point the service to their dotfiles directory, which must