dotfiles
dotfiles symbolic links management CLI (by rhysd)
dfm
dotfile manager with 0 dependencies, minimal configuration, and automatic cleanup (by CGamesPlay)
| dotfiles | dfm | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 218 | 68 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.5 | 2.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | 9 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | BSD Zero Clause License |
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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.
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.
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 2024-04-08.
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Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust
I've been looking for a cross-platform dotfile management tool and I had some hope for this but it seems a little too complex, and I don't like that I would end up with lots of yaml/toml/json files. I use Mac, Windows, and Linux and I want to have a single configuration for all. I've been using https://github.com/rhysd/dotfiles and it is the only thing that really works well for me.
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GitHub Does Dotfiles
I've used my custom bash script for managing dotfiles for ages and also have tried all other tools, but just couldn't get it right because I work on multiple OS. Then I found https://github.com/rhysd/dotfiles. It is the only tool I know of that can support multiple OS (Linux, mac, windows). I have to work with multiple OS and having a single dotfiles repo has been great, especially its ability to set different config on different OS, well as a unified Unix-like config setting.
dfm
Posts with mentions or reviews of dfm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-28.
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GitHub Does Dotfiles
A few years ago I spent some time developing my own solution to this, which I published on GitHub. I drew inspiration from the best dotfiles managers at the time, but I found deficiencies in all of them which is why I made my own. Basically: no configuration file, uses symlinks and not copies or templates, and can clean up files after you remove them. The result is dfm [0]. I talk more about the differences from other high-quality projects in the README. If you like DFM, I’d appreciate a star on GitHub so that I can hit 100 to qualify to be listed on the dotfiles.github.io list :)
[0] https://github.com/cgamesplay/dfm
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotfiles and dfm you can also consider the following projects:
dotfiles
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
dotfilers
vim-zen - Barebones Vim Plugin Manager
SpaceVim - A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc