dotfiles VS dotbot

My current setup has some issues, but you might find my dracula theme settings interesting. I added support for truecolor, darkened the background, and adjusted currentline color.

I keep them on github and my home directory contains a bare rpoe. I followed a guide to create my repo.

My dotfiles, which aren't super impressive.

This is what I do. I originally went the symlink route, but this is much easier to manage.

For more information: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles and my dotfiles at https://github.com/mikeslattery/dotfiles

I maintain a dotfiles project in github (it also has /etc files in it). Helps when setting up another separate device.

I have a dotfiles project in github. In macos, I would just check it out into my home directory and have all my familiar settings like I have in Linux.

That's exactly what I created: https://github.com/mikeslattery/dotfiles

Create a dotfiles project, like mine

git clone --bare https://github.com/mikeslattery/dotfiles .dotfiles alias config="git -C $HOME --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME" config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no config reset --hard

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).

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

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.

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.

With dotbot in my GitHub-repository

| 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.

I use dotbot to manage my dotfiles, which is good for anything I need to install prior to installing plugins (I use vim-plug).

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.

dotbot is fine.