filetailor VS configs

Compare filetailor vs configs and see what are their differences.

filetailor

Copy and modify plain text files between devices without templates (by k4j8)

configs

Dot-files among other configs (by TheKnarf)
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filetailor configs
1 1
11 1
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4.9 7.4
10 days ago 2 months ago
Python Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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filetailor

Posts with mentions or reviews of filetailor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
  • Dotfiles Management
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
    I didn't discover Chezmoi until seeing this thread (sigh). I developed a tool, [filetailor](https://github.com/k4j8/filetailor), with an almost identical goal (dotfile management while accounting for differences across machines). It uses Python and YAML, but from what I can tell is similar in concept to Chezmoi.

    One thing I like about filetailor I didn't see in Chezmoi was the ability to surround code with a comment specifying which machines it should be commented/uncommented for. It's easier than templates in some situations.

    It works great, but there's probably tons of bugs that occur when used by someone other than me. I don't have a CS background and this was my first big hobby project.

configs

Posts with mentions or reviews of configs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
  • Dotfiles Management
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
    I found that most tooling was overkill and now just use a single <100 Bash script [0].

    [0] https://github.com/TheKnarf/configs/blob/master/setup

What are some alternatives?

When comparing filetailor and configs you can also consider the following projects:

homies - My configuration files (.screenrc, .vimrc, .weechat, .bashrc, .gitconfig, etc)

npt - Nix Package Tool. A (humble) successor to linux's apt, which makes life easier when using nix as a package manager.

dot-git - Managing your dotfiles the Git Way™

dotfiles - dotfiles + debian setup

dotfiles - A modern Zsh/tmux, Vim and Homebrew centric setup for macOS and Linux

homer - The home directory management tool.

tilde

just - 🤖 Just a command runner