bashdot
dotfiles
| bashdot | dotfiles | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 99 | 7 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 3.2 | |
| over 1 year ago | 6 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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bashdot
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
I've been using bashdot(https://github.com/bashdot/bashdot) does exactly this. It's a simple bash script that sets up symlinks for a given directory. It can also switch symlinks to different directories, so you could use that as swappable profiles.
dotfiles
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
I really like this method as opposed to using a bare Git repository. For one, it's conceptually simpler in my mind; you don't have to understand Git internals to get this working. Secondly, this lets you pick and choose which config files you want to "install" on a machine.
I feel obligated to share my Bash script, dotfiles.sh[1], that accomplishes what Stow does, but with a few tweaks that I found particularly useful:
dotfiles.sh targets the user's home directory by default (i.e. stow -t $HOME).
dotfiles.sh never symlinks directories, only files (i.e. stow --no-folding). (This was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me roll my own script in the first place.)
dotfiles.sh makes backups of local config files and can restore them if you remove your symlinked version.
My script is quite old now, and I use it so seldomly I'm not convinced there aren't bugs. YMMV.
[1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dotfiles
What are some alternatives?
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches
nix - my nix modules, overlays, host configurations, and more!
zinit - Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.
dotfiles - Settings for various tools I use.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
vcsh - config manager based on Git
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
dotfiles - .files
dot.me - me dot files