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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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chezmoi
- Securely manage your dot files
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Ask HN: Did macOS Sonoma break your iCloud setup?
> A warning, not an admonishment: Use Apple services in a novel or unsupported manner and you're asking for trouble.
+1
I've always had sync issues with iCloud Drive when storing developer projects and related things there. It ends up stuck or confused or conflicted but tries to resolve the merge conflicts opaquely and it's hard to know there's a problem in real time vs until later when you find something broken. I keep all dev things out of iCloud after getting burned by this enough times over the years.
To OP: Consider a repo dotfiles setup like using Chezmoi or similar. Transitioning to it was less friction than I expected and the only downside really is having to remember to commit changes across devices.
https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi
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Russ Cox: Go Testing by Example
chezmoi (<https://chezmoi.io> or <https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi>) has a couple dozen txtar tests. They are both amazing and completely frustrating to use, but I don't think that there would be a better way to test most of what chezmoi does without them.
Tom Payne (the creator and primary developer of chezmoi) has added some extra commands to the txtar context which makes things easier for certain classes of testing.
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Fake recruiter Lazarus lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
Thanks, I never heard of it before and it looks really interesting.
However, it seems that it does not cover all of my needs: https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/discussions/1510#discussi...
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Sharing neovim settup
once i need a more complex solution (eg. for machine specific stuff), i'll probably switch to chezmoi which has more features and native windows support
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I want to mess around with my config files. What is the best way for me to be able to go back and forth between my normal config and my test config?
I’ve been using chezmoi, which uses git, to manage my dot files and have different branches for these types of experiments.
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Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”
https://chezmoi.io is a dotfile manager that is runs on multiple OSes (including Windows) while handling differences from machine to machine, allows you to store your secrets in your password manager (so you don't have to store secrets in your dotfile repo), and it even supports the NO_COLOR environment variable. Check it out! Disclaimer: I'm the author.
There's a comprehensive list of the most popular dotfile managers at https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/.
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Chezmoi: ignore files and subdirectories
/autoload/ **/autoload//* /plugged/ **/plugged//* */yankring_history.txt ``` Discussion
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What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?
chezmoi
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Setup a backup system if you haven’t done it yet
Checkout yadm or chezmoi. They work great.
mackup
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Best way to transfer apps to new Mac using external drive
Also checkout Mackup.
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Allow all applications to access Dropbox or Google Drive files
I am using mackup to sync application preferences between devices over Dropbox. Now if any application with synced preferences is started I will get a question if given application is allowed to access Dropbox files (because it tries to access its preferences). Examples below.
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Clone user settings/preferences for Personal and Work accounts on same mac
Hello there! I use https://github.com/lra/mackup Not sure if its the BEST but it works well for me. * What does it do - Back ups your application settings in a safe directory (e.g. Dropbox) - Syncs your application settings among all your workstations - Restores your configuration on any fresh install in one command line
- Backup Solutions for MacOS
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The best Mac Apps to unlock your max potential (recommended by users of r/MacOs )
Yeah, I went through a similar process when I finally upgraded my MBP after 8 years on a 2013 MBP. In light of the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon, I decided to do some spring cleaning with a fresh install. I ended up curating my own setup/bootstrap scripts as well as using mackup to backup and sync my dotfiles and app configs.
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Sync settings
I use Mackup which syncs a many app settings including Raycast to your choice of location.
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Dotfiles Management
I moved away from using a dotfiles repo a few years ago because I kept forgetting to add/commit files as I changed them.
Instead I use mackup[0] which automatically manages symlinks to your Dropbox/Drive/Share and has support for a huge amount of software by default. You can also manually add “extra” files you wish to track if you like.
[0] https://github.com/lra/mackup
- Configuration files sync between multiple macs
- A configuration management system for pets, not cattle
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Trying to learn Homebrew-macOS /usr/local layout --for purpose of--> migrating /usr/local from one Macbook to another
Brew bundle will install fresh copies of your package list. If you have any configuration files that you want to reuse, you’d have to transfer those separately. This might help https://github.com/lra/mackup
What are some alternatives?
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches
macprefs - Backup and Restore your Mac System and App Preferences (e.g. defaults write)
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
desktop - Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
kde-plasma-backup - Script for backup and restore KDE Plasma environment configuration.
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
konsave - A command line program written in Python to let you backup your dotfiles and switch to other ones in an instant. Works out-of-the box on KDE Plasma!
dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
client - 🖥️ Desktop Syncing Client for ownCloud