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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...
[2] https://github.com/jez/dotfiles
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jez/dotfiles is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of dotfiles is Shell.
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