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dotfile
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Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
https://dotfilehub.com
No JS, and easy to self host. It’s a place to put your dotfiles. It comes with a ClI loosely based on git for editing, versioning, pushing, and pulling.
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A Dotfile History
* Install files without the CLI: `curl https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/vim >> ~/.vimrc`
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Ask HN: What's Your Side Project?
It seems like Covid left a lot of restaurants scrambling for contactless ordering solutions. They can be nice, but I find it annoying when I have to use my phone to look at a menu or to make an order. How does your system work?
My side project is https://dotfilehub.com
It’s a bare bones version control system for single files + a web interface.
- Ask HN: Dotfiles Management Tools?
- Dotfile - Version Control for Single Files
- Show HN: Dotfilehub – Upload, share, and retrieve text files
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Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?
Dotfilehub: https://dotfilehub.com
I've always found various solutions that use git for sharing configuration files cumbersome. I set out to make my own simple version control system, and a lightweight web application where I can browse and edit them remotely. The main idea is that paths are aliased to simple names, so I can say `dotfile pull i3` and it will install https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/i3 to ~/.config/i3/config
Overall the project is stable and I use it daily for all sorts of miscellaneous files.
- Dotfile - An easier way to manage configuration files
- Dotfile - Simple VCS for managing single files
dotbot
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Nix Home Manager Option Search
Many command line programs keep their configurations somewhere under $HOME. These are often called "dotfiles".
If you ever use more than one machine, likely you'll want the same configuration available on all those machines.. so you'll want some way to copy them to a new machine.
Some dotfile managers are quite simple, like dotbot. https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot
Home Manager from the Nix community is a bit more sophisticated. It allows for writing configurations in the Nix language, which is nice if you know/like Nix. (Nix is a powerful/expressive package manager. Nix is to apt-get what vim is to notepad).
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Managing my dot files: Git bare or Stow ?
I started using DotBot a couple of years ago and love it. I store my git repo at ~/.dotfiles, and DotBot handles the symlinking and everything
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Dotfiles Management
Dotbot (https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot) has worked extremely well for me. It’s simple to setup, has minimal dependencies, and it is also easy to run arbitrary commands if I want to get tricky with things. I would highly recommend it.
- What are some good habits to keep your Arch clean?
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Please remind me of the thread on managing init.el for Emacs across multiple machines & OS'
You might also like something like https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot. I manage all of the config I care about with this, as part of a repo that also gives me all of the other system setup and customization I expect in my environment.
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Where do you guys store your dot files
With dotbot in my GitHub-repository
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What's your vertical / horizontal split keys?
| for vertical split, - for horizontal split: easy to remember. I have lots of things in my config file, so I don't have an issue with a bit more customization. Installing my .tmux.conf is easy because I use the dotbot dotfile manager.
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Anyone else using git submodules to manage your plugins?
I use dotbot to manage my dotfiles, which is good for anything I need to install prior to installing plugins (I use vim-plug).
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Managing your Dotfiles with Dotter (Tutorial)
I'm glad you asked! There are plenty of dotfiles managers out there, like chezmoi, Dotbot, or yadm (you can see a list here and a comparison table (from chezmoi, thus biased) here. But for this tutorial (and my dotfiles), I chose dotter.
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Best dotfiles manager
dotbot is fine.
What are some alternatives?
dev-portal-frontend - A StackOverflow / Reddit / Disqus / Talkyard clone
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches
tubesync - Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
sogdb - An open database for stadia games
nvim-notify - A fancy, configurable, notification manager for NeoVim
go-git
kanception
ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.