I finally made the switch from the bare-repository method to stow to manage my dotfiles. This brings some nice benefits, e.g. I can savely say what file is in my dotfiles and what is missing out. Furthermore the usage is _way_ simpler the before. Though one downside is the more complicated removal of files, but I've documented a way which feels nice to me as well. Finally I removed my old setup-script since I switched to an ansible-setup anyway. So this config will eventually be applied ansible and I don't have to care about installed software in this repo anymore! Reference: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 Reference: https://gitea.nehrke.info/nemoinho/dev-machine/