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The ability to specify a source repository to initialize with would eliminate the current multi-step process when bootstrapping the configuration on a new user account / system.

This functionality would have to be compatible with #4 so that both are optional.

Vagrant's init command provides an example of how this could be approached, and dots might be able to take inspiration from that and use something the following interface:

dots init [<dotspath> [<source-url>]]

This would be preferable to using options with arguments since that would complicate option handling at this stage.

Dependent on #1 #2 and #3

First, thank you, this is great, I have no idea why it isnt more popular!
GNU Stow allows us to create our own nested directory within dotfiles folder and link them, please add this if possible.
I know it can do one directory deep but from readme it seems (I could be wrong!) that it cant do any deeper, example:
For Bindle that would mean allowing us to create directories in the "home" directory like so:

• home
  • git
    • ExamplePkg
      • ExamplePkgsFile.rc

Only thing to note if you do is you would probably have to change the name of "local" to something like "untracked" as most people have a ".local" directory and (like me) would probably like to track this (I personally have alot more binaries in ~/.local/bin I would like to track than in ~/bin).
Thank you again! its really appreciated!

$DOTFILES is too generic and doesn't do a good job of describing what the purpose of the variable is, whereas $DOTSPATH reflects the name of the program and is arguably more conventional.

Although it's possible to make this backwards-compatible, it might be better just to drop $DOTFILES altogether.

Although ~/.dotfiles is more standard, it seems easier to keep dots agnostic by using consistent naming and, therefore, creating a ~/.dots directory by default. This location will be configurable via the environment variable discussed in #1 and the config file discussed on #2

This would initially be used for setting the location of the dots directory to a non-standard path.

When initializing an existing source repository on a new user account, there currently is no functionality in dots for dealing with existing dotfiles in $HOME.

Look toward Chef and Ansible for inspiration.