Adam Spiers

Thanks a lot for the quick reply @bricewge! I'm not sure I'm any closer to understanding why the feature requested in this issue is needed though: [**@bricewge**](https://github.com/bricewge) commented on [June...

Ohhhh I see, so you want the pre-commit hooks to symlink to hook files defined under a Stow package, and since `git init` can be run from anywhere and makes...

So far this (git template directories) is the only use case which makes sense to me, but if anyone else can suggest others I'd love to hear them.

Thanks a lot @someonewithpc! I will definitely take a look at this, hopefully soon. I have a big backlog of Stow maintenance which I've been meaning to attend to for...

Yikes, really sorry for the slow reply - not sure how I missed this one for so long. Yes, your three items sound like valid reasons for this feature, and...

I think that would be too dangerous to enable in general. Whilst a lot of Stow packages share top-level directories such as `bin/`, `lib/`, that wouldn't necessarily be a problem...

Borrowing from ideas in #24, maybe the benefits are worth it after all: - verify that the target_dir file is not a symlink (which needs to be smarter, it should...

I've already seen this, but currently too busy to investigate, sorry. Hopefully I'll have some free time soon.

Suggestions on how to fix stow to handle this natively are welcome. I haven't had time to think about it.

Please can somebody give details of a real world example where this feature would be desirable? I understand the request, I just don't understand why there'd be a burning need...