A Way to Manage Dotfiles

• dotfiles

  2 242 0.0 Vim Script

  Dotfiles or you can say my swiss army knife. Configs for creating a delightful development experience - vim + tmux + Fzf + Rg + LSP etc. (by kalkayan)

• dot.me

  10 41 7.2 Scheme

  me dot files

Personally, I use git [0] along with GNU stow [1], combined with making the files directly from a literate Readme.org (e.g. [2]). I sync this repository between machines to update files, and when I make changes in the org-mode Readme file it automatically generates the new file. There are ways to pull in changes made to that file directly, but haven't needed to do that. My repo doesn't have the full details, but if you want to see it in action along with a few links and pointers, do take a look at [0]. I really like having it all together in one place, and with org-mode everything is very (human) readable.

[0] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

[2] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/blob/master/x11/README.org

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• dotbot

  31 6,784 5.8 Python

  A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️

I do a similar thing, but with dotbot instead https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot

• dotfiles

  2 8 9.1 Vim Script

  My Linux configuration files (by bewuethr)

and so on, for each config file. My general dotfiles repo is public here, if you want to take a look how I did it for the tools I use: https://github.com/bewuethr/dotfiles

This still isn't ideal. For example, I use Git submodules for Vim plugins in the shared repo – but maybe I don't need all of that on my Raspberry pi. I feel like at some point, a config file based solution could be better; or using a tool such as https://yadm.io/, which is using bare repos under the hood.

• yadm

  81 4,761 2.4 Python

  Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

and so on, for each config file. My general dotfiles repo is public here, if you want to take a look how I did it for the tools I use: https://github.com/bewuethr/dotfiles

This still isn't ideal. For example, I use Git submodules for Vim plugins in the shared repo – but maybe I don't need all of that on my Raspberry pi. I feel like at some point, a config file based solution could be better; or using a tool such as https://yadm.io/, which is using bare repos under the hood.

• dotfiles

  4 17 4.8 Shell

  zsh, git, vscode, ipython (by cbarrick)

I just maintain an install script to do the linking. It's just a few lines of zsh to mirror one directory into another with symlinks. I've found that the bare repo approach has too many rough edges, and that the various dotfile management frameworks are overkill.

https://github.com/cbarrick/dotfiles/blob/master/home/instal...

• symgr

  1 2 0.0 Python

  Symlink manager for maintaining files in source control

Since we're sharing, my dotfiles setup has pretty much reached its final form. I use my symgr[1] to symlink my dotfiles repo into my home dir. Pretty much everything I think about this topic is in its readme, as well as a link to my setup[2] repo with my dotfiles showing how I use symgr.

[1] https://github.com/kbd/symgr

[2] https://github.com/kbd/setup

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• setup

  12 68 8.9 Python

  My config, system settings, utilities, etc. (by kbd)

Since we're sharing, my dotfiles setup has pretty much reached its final form. I use my symgr[1] to symlink my dotfiles repo into my home dir. Pretty much everything I think about this topic is in its readme, as well as a link to my setup[2] repo with my dotfiles showing how I use symgr.

[1] https://github.com/kbd/symgr

[2] https://github.com/kbd/setup

• dotfiles

  2 2 6.1 Shell

  My Dotfiles (by svieira)

• misc-updater

  5 17 0.0 Shell

  Check if 'Manually-Installed and Source-Compiled' (MISC) packages have new releases or updates announced on their respective webpages.

Often enough, when I see something like this, the real value isn't the software itself, but the idea that perhaps the issue it addresses is be worth thinking about a bit more. The solution itself may be trivial, but have a large impact.

E.g. I have created [0] the simplest of scripts for managing updates for manually-installed / source-compiled applications (something I've dubbed "misc", very proud of this backronym :p).

The script itself is extremely simple (just a list of greps over latest release announcement urls), but it has solved a big problem for me, of helping me keep such "misc" items seamlessly up-to-date.

[0]: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater

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