[C-Loftus]

Does this program allow linking the same file to different locations on MacOS vs Linux? I have a few config files like the vscode settings.json that end up in different paths but have the same content. (I see it allows for files that are OS specific but not clear if there is a way to keep them in sync if they are the same, but just need different paths)

I use stow at the moment and it is almost perfect but I don't believe it can do that without multiple symlinks or something messy. Didn't like home manager and other dotfiles solutions seemed too bloated for my case

[cweagans]

Yes, it does. https://yadm.io/docs/alternates#

I used yadm for a while. I switched to Chezmoi (https://www.chezmoi.io) though. Same ideas, but much better execution IMO.

[snthpy]

I'm surprised by this because I find the chezmoi workflow very annoying, to the extent that I wrote my own thing (see my other comment).

Where did you find yadm fall short?

[snapplebobapple]

Did chezmoi make it easy to edit and then add fileswith changes?i hated always having to chezmoi this and that rather than doing what i want then runn*ng yadm -u to pick up all the changes in my tracked files