Contribution Request: Another small plugin for core (details inside)

Hello again, @anishathalye 👋

I recently finished up a small plugin locally for my own use and it’s pretty darn useful for a particular use-case that I think might also be useful for a large portion of other users.

This issue is just to gauge your interest in adding it into core (after a thorough code review, of course).

The gist

The plugin is called merge, and it is used like this (subject to changes):

- merge:
    ~/dest: source

As you can see, it works very much like link, however, the difference is that instead of linking dest to source, it “merges” the contents of source into dest (with symlinks dest -> src).

The salient use-case for this is with dotfiles belonging in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config directory.

Instead of having to do this:

- link:
    ~/.config/foo: config/foo
    ~/.config/bar: config/bar
    ~/.config/baz: config/baz

You instead only have to do this:

- merge:
    ~/.config: config

Ah, much better 😄

Anyway, I just finished a decent working implementation last night for my own personal use that so far works nicely for my needs.

Let me know if you might be interested in a PR for this. If not, no hard feelings. 👍

[dsifford]

Finally got around to pushing the plugin to github…

Here’s a link if you’re interested in checking it out… I run it several times in my configuration and it’s working pretty well for me.

[dsifford]

Looks like you guys went with globbing. Closing this as irrelevant.