From 5d2bc09f0a54ccc7bd8fbcee478cf6412de5dfc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 22:05:33 +0100 Subject: doc: Add index entries for “dot files” and “Stow”. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * doc/guix.texi (Essential Home Services): Add index entries. Change-Id: I0c3a5f5d94fe273c137eb3ca5fa6c5c91a34599b --- doc/guix.texi | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index dee14e3bb7..58c3024642 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3