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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
tilde
Posts with mentions or reviews of tilde.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
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Dotfiles Management
Any home-manager users on NixOS here? Are there any killer features in home-manager for you? I tried home-manager for a bit, but just went back to plain NixOS after I couldn't find anything it did better than what I was already using ([1], [2]).
[1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/tilde
[2] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root
dotter
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.
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What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?
dotter-rs -- config manager with templates
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Dotfiles Management
I was unhappy with existing solutions, especially I wanted the ability to handle differences between machines. So I built my own! You're welcome to see if you like it :)
https://github.com/SuperCuber/dotter
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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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Is it possible to have per-device .add spellcheck files, or some other, non git conflicting solution?
Or you could use the greatest bestest dotfile manager ever invented by yours truly - Dotter! It is designed to allow for per-machine configuration exactly like this :)
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Any Plugin manager that will still manage to update plugins when the plugin doesn't contain the .git folder?
Shameless plug time! Check out my project Dotter :D
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A great dotfile manager written in Rust
Apparently I get that a lot :P
- Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tilde and dotter you can also consider the following projects:
dot-git - Managing your dotfiles the Git Way™
rua - Build tool for Arch Linux providing control, review and jailed build options
configs - Dot-files among other configs
dotfiles
dotfiles - dotfiles + debian setup
toml-bombadil - A dotfile manager with templating
filetailor - Copy and modify plain text files between devices without templates
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
root
streamlit - Streamlit — A faster way to build and share data apps.
homer - The home directory management tool.
punktf - ⚡ A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager