Top 11 dotfile-manager Open-Source Projects

chezmoi

59 11,689 9.7 Go

Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

Project mention: Securely manage your dot files | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-11

yadm

81 4,779 2.4 Python

Yet Another Dotfiles Manager

Project mention: Yadm: Yet Another Dotfiles Manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-08

InfluxDB

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homeshick

8 2,039 0.0 Shell

git dotfiles synchronizer written in bash

Project mention: Ask HN: What Underrated Open Source Project Deserves More Recognition? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

I have a work mac, work linux, and home mac. I want the same terminal-based development environment on all of them, but each requires just a little bit of customization.
For example, the .gitconfig for work is different from home (e.g. my username/email). Ditto for my .ssh/config and my shell aliases.
I also use Nix to manage all my tools, and the home-manager configuration is slightly different between mac & linux due to platform support.
I've gone through a few iterations of home-built solutions, including extending homeshick[1], before discovering YADM which implemented everything I had done but better.
[1] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

dotter

8 769 6.7 Rust

A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀
GNU Stow

4 548 9.2 Perl

GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches
toml-bombadil

3 205 1.5 Rust

A dotfile manager with templating
dfm

1 68 2.8 Go

dotfile manager with 0 dependencies, minimal configuration, and automatic cleanup
WorkOS

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Tuckr

9 66 4.1 Rust

Super powered replacement for GNU Stow
hoard

10 64 4.3 Rust
dotfiles

2 7 2.9 Shell

My personal dotfiles (by koffeinfrei)
dotref

1 7 0.0 Python

Simple tool to manage dotfiles

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).