stowage
Stow-like tool with a backup feature, designed for keeping dotfiles under version control via symlinks (by michaelpb)
vcsh
config manager based on Git (by RichiH)
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0.0 | 7.6 | |
over 2 years ago | 24 days ago | |
Python | Shell | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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
vcsh
Posts with mentions or reviews of vcsh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-11.
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Managing my dot files: Git bare or Stow ?
I'm pretty happy with vcsh. I've used a lot of options over the years, and this is the only one I've never been motivated to replace.
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GitHub Does Dotfiles
weirdly, nobody mentioned vcsh[1] yet. it's a git-based tool that gives all git goodies. I use it and a couple of bash micro scripts to pull/push the latest changes upon logging in/out into shell (again bash, but seeking for POSIX or fish-based version)
[1] https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
- Vcsh – multiple Git repositories in $HOME
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Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
I feel obligated to point out vcsh [1], which is likely already packaged for your operating system.
[1] https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
The main selling point is that you can set up various git repos for different things. I have one for SSH keys (and no, that does not get pushed anywhere except to my own private server), VIM, neovim, bash, and 'other' (for misc config files like .dir_colors, .gitconfig, etc.).
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How to move dotfiles from $home?
All you need is https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
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How do you manage your dotfiles?
I'm using vcsh which is basically a small wrapper around git. The resulting repository is this in my case.
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
It’s over-engineered, but I’ve been using https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh for this for years.