dotbare VS dotfiles

Compare dotbare vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

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dotbare dotfiles
4 1
624 23
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0.0 7.8
over 1 year ago 2 months ago
Shell Shell
MIT License MIT License
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dotbare

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotbare. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-19.
  • Open relevant git files in your $EDITOR
    3 projects | /r/vim | 19 Mar 2022
    This is great! I've been using Dotbare, GNU Stow and some of my own aliases for a while now to sync my dotfiles, and this seems like a great and simple addition to my toolkit (and graeat for regular git repo's as well!). Thank you for sharing!
  • Zsh Plugins Commit TOP
    102 projects | dev.to | 25 Dec 2021
    dotbare 🥇 ⌛ - Interactive dotfile management with the help of fzf.
  • Dotfiles backup management
    1 project | /r/opensource | 21 May 2021
    I use dotbare and sometimes stow+git to backup and version control my files in gitlab. So, this local folder is just a means of "all hope is lost but ..." solution.
  • How do you manage your dotfiles?
    20 projects | /r/neovim | 2 Mar 2021
    I also use a bare repo, but I use dotbare for fzf+git superpowers.

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotbare and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

dots - dotfiles (oh-my-zsh + .vim + dir_colors + npmrc)

ansible - Ansible playbook for bootstrapping macOS/Linux workstations and managing dotfiles.

vcsh - config manager based on Git

dot - My dotfiles / default location for ricing configs.

kdm-bash-env - My BASH environment. Warning: Bash 4+ and 24bit TERM support required.

nix-home - Home Manager config

mydotfiles - A set of config files, vimrc, git, zshrc, etc. Work in progress.

rcm - rc file (dotfile) management

alacritty-color-export - Regex based solution to export generated (Wal) colors into Alacritty config.

yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.