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Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi

rednafi.com published 2026-06-129 min read

Why I swapped GNU stow's symlink farm for chezmoi: one command to bootstrap a Mac with Homebrew packages and macOS settings, a small daily sync loop, and agent skills shared between Claude Code and Codex.

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