Symly, centralize sparse file trees

Symly is a tool helping to centralize sparse file trees. It replicates and maintains a file tree structure of one or more repository layers into a directory by creating symbolic links.

• Layers: Symly supports the definition of multiple repositories. Those repositories will be combined in an overriding fashion similar to what is done by OverlayFS.

• No database: the filesystem is the state

• Backup, Sharing, and Synchronization tool of your choice: Symly replicates the file tree of the repositories inside another file tree using symbolic links. But it doesn’t provide a way to share, synchronize, or back up the content of the repositories. You can then decide to use one or more tools of your choice for this task: git, rsync, Dropbox, Tresorit, …​

Common use cases

• Dotfiles management tutorial

• Application installation

Getting started

• What is Symly useful for?

• Installation

• Getting started with dotfiles management

• Concepts

• Usage

• Features and roadmap

How to build Symly

The build instructions are available on the build instructions page.