Ask HN: Why does GNU Stow (et al.) exist?

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    • I've been putting my whole home folder under git for almost a year [1].

    I haven't seen any other repos on GitHub with a similar layout. Why do people rely on GNU Stow and other complicated tools to essentially do what git does? I haven't noticed any performance problems with just using git.

    [1]. https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/

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