Dotfiles Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to dotfiles
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WorkOS
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zinit
Discontinued Flexible and fast Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, Turbo, annexes, services, packages.
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InfluxDB
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dotfiles
Discontinued Mostly ~/.* files to configure vim, sh, tmux, etc. on Debian, Mac, and Windows (by susam)
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stowage
Stow-like tool with a backup feature, designed for keeping dotfiles under version control via symlinks (by michaelpb)
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dotfiles reviews and mentions
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Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
I really like this method as opposed to using a bare Git repository. For one, it's conceptually simpler in my mind; you don't have to understand Git internals to get this working. Secondly, this lets you pick and choose which config files you want to "install" on a machine.
I feel obligated to share my Bash script, dotfiles.sh[1], that accomplishes what Stow does, but with a few tweaks that I found particularly useful:
dotfiles.sh targets the user's home directory by default (i.e. stow -t $HOME).
dotfiles.sh never symlinks directories, only files (i.e. stow --no-folding). (This was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me roll my own script in the first place.)
dotfiles.sh makes backups of local config files and can restore them if you remove your symlinked version.
My script is quite old now, and I use it so seldomly I'm not convinced there aren't bugs. YMMV.
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kevin-hanselman/dotfiles is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of dotfiles is Shell.