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rcm
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Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”
I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm, which works smoothly and includes support for host-specific files
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Prior to catching the Nix brainworms and switching to home-manager, I mostly used thoughtbot/rcm.
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Automatic setup
Check out https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
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Thoughts on chezmoi
currently I am managing my dotfiles with rcm (ran by ansible). This approach served me well over the years but recently I stumpled over chezmoi.
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Ask HN: How do you sync your computers development configurations/environment?
I use a tool called rcm[0], which is essentially a set of shell scripts for managing symlinks from $HOME into $HOME/.dotfiles. $HOME/.dotfiles can then be a git repo.
Some notes:
1. rcm lets you decide make host-specific or host-agnostic dotfiles. For example, I can declare that I want a different `.ssh/config` file for each host, and rcm will figure out which `.ssh/config` to symlink based on the current machine's hostname.
2. The installation process is very simple. It's just shell scripts, so you don't have to have a compiler. Operating system packages exist for the common platforms, and there's also a convenient way to "build" from source using configure && make && make install. The from source option is particularly convenient if you need to change the installation prefix to a user-writable location on a multi-user machine.
3. I use SSH Agent Forwarding[1] to avoid needing to install private keys (either new keys or copies of existing keys) on all the hosts I manage. This lets me git push and pull to my dotfiles repo on all hosts.
4. Taking it a step further, some shell config I have is host-specific (e.g., certain PATH modifications I only want to apply on certain hosts). Rather than use the host-specific dotfile feature of rcm for the whole .bashrc, I factor my shell config files into multiple files, that I then source. One of these files is called `$HOME/.util/host.sh`, which is host specific. Again, rcm creates a symlink from this to the correct host-specific file automatically by hostname.
If you're curious to learn more about any of this, my dotfiles are public.[2]
[0] https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
[1] https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/using-ssh-age...
- Syncing dotfiles with git
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Lmao "Thank you Linus"
rcm is essential if you use multiple machines.
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What's the point of a "dotfiles" repository?
You already got a good amount of reasons from other comments. Just a sidenote: there are also dotfile managers that try to help with the mess. I personally use rcm ( https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm ) as it has a Deb repo and is portable as it's written in bash. I recommend looking into it. I have all my dotfiles in place on a fresh install with 3-4 commands in the terminal.
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First release of Hoard dotfile manager
Hoard is a program that backs up sparse files from across your filesystem into a single location and can later restore them. Some of you might know programs like this as "dotfile managers," like RCM and Chezmoi.
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How do you manage your dotfiles?
I use rcm, which is made by the folks at Thoughtbot. It's dead-simple—it just creates symbolic links in place of files. I'd highly recommend it for a simple and quick approach.
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What are some alternatives?
GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
homesick - Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
CFEngine - CFEngine Community
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.
(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework
Puppet - Server automation framework and application