stowage
Stow-like tool with a backup feature, designed for keeping dotfiles under version control via symlinks (by michaelpb)
nix
my nix modules, overlays, host configurations, and more! (by jpetrucciani)
| stowage | nix | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | 42 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 9.9 | |
| over 2 years ago | about 21 hours ago | |
| Python | Nix | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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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.
stowage
Posts with mentions or reviews of stowage.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-26.
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
That's what I do too. I even made a little Stow-inspired tool to help me, called "stowage", if you are curious: https://github.com/michaelpb/stowage
nix
Posts with mentions or reviews of nix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-26.
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
+1 for nix and home-manager - I recently switched to this setup (still learning/experimenting a lot, link here [0]) and have been very happy!
[0]: https://github.com/jpetrucciani/nix
What are some alternatives?
When comparing stowage and nix you can also consider the following projects:
dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches