homer
The home directory management tool. (by tubbo)
configs
Dot-files among other configs (by TheKnarf)
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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.
homer
Posts with mentions or reviews of homer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
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Dotfiles Management
I also track my dotfiles in a Git repo, but I only track my home directory. Made a tool to help out with some of the more arcane commands: https://github.com/tubbo/homer. I'm currently rewriting it in Rust, which is mostly done but I still have to work out a couple kinks on Linux machines . So far, I haven't needed to mess with too many top-level configs on each machine, most of the stuff I do is relatively contained (and uses the XDG standards thankfully). It got a little hairy when I tried to configure certain file paths on both a Linux and macOS environment, as there are different default conventions and other nuances that make the two not fully compatible at times. But it definitely saves a lot of time when setting up a new machine from scratch, `homer bootstrap $REPO_URL` does all the hard work and gets my home directory loaded up with configuration the way I'd expect.
configs
Posts with mentions or reviews of configs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.
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Dotfiles Management
I found that most tooling was overkill and now just use a single <100 Bash script [0].
[0] https://github.com/TheKnarf/configs/blob/master/setup
What are some alternatives?
When comparing homer and configs you can also consider the following projects:
homies - My configuration files (.screenrc, .vimrc, .weechat, .bashrc, .gitconfig, etc)
dotfiles - dotfiles + debian setup
dot-git - Managing your dotfiles the Git Way™
dotfiles - Bootstrap your Ubuntu in a single command!
npt - Nix Package Tool. A (humble) successor to linux's apt, which makes life easier when using nix as a package manager.
filetailor - Copy and modify plain text files between devices without templates
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