A Cross-Platform tool to deploy dot files

• medots

  2 54 1.9 Go

  Cross-platform dot config files manager using a yaml file.

I use Linux, MacOS and WSL and switch between them often. I was looking for a tool that can deploy my dot files in different environment quickly and easily. Not only symlinking those configs, I wanted to symlink OS specific files automatically and run commands before and/or after symlinking those file. Such tool didn't exist (or maybe I am wrong) so I created medots to scratch that itch. I hope someone else finds it useful.

• homelab

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I use git to store my dotfiles in code, stow to deploy them on my machine, and I've automated this with ansible as well.

• InfluxDB

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• Home Manager using Nix

  182 5,937 9.8 Nix

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

  

Another option would be home-manager, which uses nix package manager.

• nixpkgs-config

  15 140 6.2 Nix

  ~/.config/nixpkgs

My dot file repo.

• yadm

  82 4,803 2.4 Python

  Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

Checkout yadm as well. It's very similar to chezmoi, but I personally prefer it.

• chezmoi

  59 11,820 9.7 Go

  Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

I didn't like using symlinks since it'd clog up my Telescope fuzzy find searches in neovim, so I switched to chezmoi. It uses a git repo to store all the files, then you use a command to copy them to the machine. Then if you change the files on your machine, you can see the changes through another command, and decide to re-deploy the git version, update the git version to reflect your system, or just leave it as it is.

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