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You could always whitelist that file in your .gitignore by adding the following to it:

ssh.symlink/*
!ssh.symlink/config

That would block everything but the config file, so any SSH keys, etc, would be omitted.

How about creating a special character (like \) that is replaced with /

It'd probably be better for it to just detect .symlink files or folders at any depth and preserve their hierarchy when symlinking rather than introducing the backslash as a separator. But with the .gitignore adjustments above you can avoid it the extra complexity entirely.

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I think .gitignore is probbbbbbably the best way to do it. I just have that outside of my dotfiles directory because... well, no reason, just laziness and haven't seen a huge need yet, I suppose. :)

Going to close this for now but if any other thoughts I'd be happy to hear them!

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I'm putting the ln -s in an install.sh for now.

How about creating a special character (like \) that is replaced with / for .symlink files, so we can specify subdirectories? The ssh config file would then be in ~/dotfiles/ssh/ssh\config.symlink.

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