How do I copy directory structure as symlinks inside other directory

I am looking for an easy way to backup all my dotfiles in a git repository. Solution that I'm aiming for: - have git as my source of truth for my dotfiles contents - in my home directory backed up files would be symlinks to files in repository (so when I edit it, it's going to be edited in repository) - I can create symlinks for all files in repo with one command (directory structure would be preserved but only files should be linked For example, I have this backup repository structure:

.config
|_ nvim
   |_ init.lua
.tmux
|_ tmux.conf
.zshrc

And I want to get this structure out of it:

home
|_ .config
|  |_ (other contents)
|  |_ nvim
|     |_ (other contents)
|     |_ link to init.lua
|_ .tmux
|  |_ (other contents)
|  |_ link to tmux.conf
|_ link to .zshrc
|_ (other home files and directories)

Other contents might exist before backup process starts, should not be backed up or affected by backup process To my surprise I wasn't able to find an already existing solution for this. I thought that rsync does it, but googling didn't give an answer on how to do it. I tried to hack a simple bash script, but drowned in testing and amount of edge cases (i.e. for every dir ignore ., .. and .git, recurse into subdirectories and etc.) I am sure that there should be a util for this. Maybe someone can point it out for me? Or already has a script that does this? **UPD:** Using Stéphane's idea from comments to use cp I wrote this script that fully covers my usecase:

find ./dotfiles -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 | xargs realpath | xargs -i cp {} $HOME -rs --remove-destination