From: Tucker Johnson <tucker@newer.systems>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:30:21 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: stow-bug
X-Git-Url: https://git.newer.systems/?a=commitdiff_plain;p=TuCLS.git

stow-bug
---

diff --git a/tucls.sh b/tucls.sh
index 1731ac8..f95ccf0 100755
--- a/tucls.sh
+++ b/tucls.sh
@@ -175,7 +175,12 @@ cloneandstow() {
 	sudo -u "$name" git -C "$repodir" clone -q "$1" "$dir" 2>/dev/null ||
 		{ cd "$dir" || return 1; sudo -u "$name" git pull --force origin master 2>/dev/null || return 1; }
 	cd "$repodir" || return 1
-	sudo -u "$name" stow -t "/home/$name" "$progname"
+	# --no-folding: without this, stow will collapse an entire empty target
+	# directory (e.g. ~/.local/bin) into a single symlink into this repo
+	# instead of symlinking the files inside it individually. That breaks
+	# anything else that writes into the same directory later (e.g. pipx,
+	# npm) by making it write straight into the git working tree.
+	sudo -u "$name" stow --no-folding -t "/home/$name" "$progname"
 	[ -f "$dir/Makefile" ] && { cd "$dir" || return 1; make install >/dev/null 2>&1; }
 	cd /tmp || return 1
 }