dotfiles VS homesick

Compare dotfiles vs homesick and see what are their differences.

homesick

Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind. (by technicalpickles)
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dotfiles homesick
3 2
380 2,392
- -
7.7 0.0
18 days ago over 3 years ago
Shell Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-27.
  • Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2022
    Been doing this for about a decade, it works nicely. Def recommend stows `--no-folding` flag (which prevents it from symlinking directories, just files)

    obligatory vanity link: http://noriceno.life

  • Double Borders Usability
    2 projects | /r/bspwm | 26 Jul 2022
    Hi, I finally got around to setting up double borders after ≈1.5 years on bspwm today but I’d like input on usability from anyöne here who’s done the same. I started by using this script but ran into many issues so modified this one instead as it’s newer.
  • How to script nodes/subnodes alignment/sizing/positioning via shell-script?
    3 projects | /r/bspwm | 28 Aug 2021
    bspc just sends null sep'd strings to bspwm via a socket - which you can reimplement how you'd like if needed. you can potentially make bindings for any language if you had reason to. or just exec bspc. do check out babashka - there is one lispy hacker who comes around here once in a while and has shared some cool bspwm stuff using it.

homesick

Posts with mentions or reviews of homesick. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-27.
  • Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2022
    There's also `homesick`[1], which is a Ruby dotfile manager. If you don't feel like managing a Ruby distro and want something more portable (and `homesick` looks to be a stale project anyway), you can use `homeshick`[2] which is a Bash port that's still being maintained. (I use `homeshick`)

    The last time I dug into this, `homeshick` was had more features and fit my needs better than `stow`.

    Alternatively, check out YADM[3], "Yet Another Dotfile Manager", which I'm probably switching to once I get some time.

    [1] https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick

  • New Mac Coding/Dev Setup
    7 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 26 Dec 2020
    use github with a pattern like dotfiles or homesick, read more here.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and homesick you can also consider the following projects:

axyl-iso - Axyl is a Linux distro centered on tiling window managers. Choose from i3, bspwm, dwm and more.

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

pj - Configuration management for localhost

yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

BSPWM-Final-Rice

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

homeshick - git dotfiles synchronizer written in bash

bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning

rcm - rc file (dotfile) management

confible - ⚙️ A cross-platform tool for managing local config files (or just parts of them) and more

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.