dotfiles VS yadm

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

Everyone hand-rolls their own dotfile management system, but YADM already does everything you need:

https://yadm.io/

I've been working around this using tools built on top of git like [yadm](https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm) and relying on `ls-files` to list all my tracked dotfiles and their paths.

Still having everything in one place would make things much simpler. Great idea!

I wonder if the program i use to manage my dotfiles could help manage your scripts and extend your setup to all your desktops? Its called yadm (https://yadm.io/) it makes it so easy to have a laptop and a desktop or two.

I really like that one but still prefer yadm because you can just edit your files as usual and then yadm add them wherever you are.

If you haven’t already, this is the time to install a tool like yadm and get your computer configuration into version control. Your command-line tools can be managed by yadm directly, your system settings can mostly be managed with a yadm bootstrap script that runs things like defaults write, and the software you install can be managed with a Brewfile that the yadm bootstrap script uses to install software with Homebrew. Don’t manually download Xcode, use xcodes to do it.

I personally use YADM. It's basically a git repo on my home folder, that only tracks what I explicitly set. And you can setup bootstraps to do what you said, install a bunch of stuff or make custom changes. In it's essence, it's a set of bash/sh files that are executed sequentially when you launch the yadm bootstrap command.