Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

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Post by kiesel » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 6:17 AM UTC

I use homeshick (https://github.com/andsens/homeshick), a - as I understand - rewrite of homesick (ruby) in bash.

It needs to be sourced in .{bash,z}shrc and has features like tracking files from multiple repos (so called "castles"), auto-linking, auto-update every X days.

We also use it in our dev team to share some config (and ~/bin) files, works fine.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

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Post by kiesel » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 6:28 AM UTC

pedrospdc wrote: post #28

I use Homesick ( https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick ). It's basically a dotfile manager. Symbolically links your stuff and runs scripts.

There's a fork called homeshick which is a plain-bash rewrite of homesick, so it doesn't have the ruby dependencies (for those who care about that). There might be few differences, though.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

#83

Post by oconnor663 » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 6:41 AM UTC

git and https://github.com/buildinspace/peru

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

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Post by tfn » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 8:51 AM UTC

srijanshetty wrote: post #63

I use vcsh and my, I even wrote a blog post about it: https://srijanshetty.in/technical/vcsh-mr-dotfiles-nirvana/

Me too! Here's my blog-post about it: http://blog.tfnico.com/2014/03/managing-dot-files-with-vcsh-...

I also interviewed the developer some years ago here: http://episodes.gitminutes.com/2013/06/gitminutes-13-richard...

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 9:04 AM UTC

prima-facie wrote: post #50

StreakyCobra wrote: post #8

I use: git init --bare $HOME/.myconf alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME' config config status.showUntrackedFiles no where my ~/.myconf directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like: config status config add .vimrc config commit -m "Add vimrc" config add .config/redshift.conf config commit -m "Add redshift config"…

Why is this a bare repo as opposed to a normal one?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

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Post by telotortium » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 9:20 AM UTC

idle_zealot wrote: post #77

StreakyCobra wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the working tree is already your home folder, you don't need to also have a copy of these files in ".myconf/".

So why use .myconf/ at all? What is it doing?

It contains the files that would normally be in .git (run `git help gitrepository-layout` for more details on the contents).

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

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Post by telotortium » Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 9:26 AM UTC

seliopou wrote: post #27

StreakyCobra wrote: post #8

I use: git init --bare $HOME/.myconf alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME' config config status.showUntrackedFiles no where my ~/.myconf directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like: config status config add .vimrc config commit -m "Add vimrc" config add .config/redshift.conf config commit -m "Add redshift config"…

To complete the description of the workflow (for others), you can replicate your home directory on a new machine using the following command: git clone --separate-git-dir=~/.myconf /path/to/repo ~ This is the best solution I've seen so far, and I may adopt it next time I get the itch to reconfigure my environment.

For posterity, note that this will fail if your home directory isn't empty. To get around that, clone the repo's working directory into a temporary directory first and then delete that directory,

    git clone --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.myconf /path/to/repo $HOME/myconf-tmp
    cp ~/myconf-tmp/.gitmodules ~  # If you use Git submodules
    rm -r ~/myconf-tmp/
    alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME'

and then proceed as before.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

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Post by ssh0 » Fri, Feb 12, 2016, 5:30 AM UTC

I use bash based dotfiles manager "dot".

* https://github.com/ssh0/dot

And I have dotfiles repository at GitHub. Some files are hosted in Dropbox (for API keys and etc.).

my dotfiles:

* https://github.com/ssh0/dotfiles

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?

#90

Post by cJ0th » Fri, Feb 12, 2016, 6:02 PM UTC

I only semi-regularly tar my dotfiles and dotfolders and then move the archive to an external drive.