dotfiles repo on Github + GNU Stow
Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#12I have all my dotfiles in Dropbox and create symlinks to those. I require some 'quasi-secrets' in my configs and therefore I do not use Github.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#13Ansible and my own python script.
I use ansible, to template my gitconfig for different unix machines, and to install software that might be referenced in a dotfile
https://github.com/berdario/dotfiles/blob/master/setup/roles...
https://github.com/berdario/dotfiles/blob/master/setup/feynm...
(I have a separate branch for windows, but I found out that branches are not a good solution for this, since unlike feature branches, they'll never be truly merged... and unlike maintainance branches, they'll never stop being touched due to being out of maintanance)
And I use my own script, to also support Windows (since ansible supports windows targets, but cannot be used from Windows)... I defined this table with the destination for the symlinks (or, in the case of .ghci the destination where to copy it, since symlinking it wouldn't work)
https://github.com/berdario/dotfiles/blob/master/deploy.py#L...
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#14I see a trend of people maintaining a GitHub repo called `dotfiles` for their public configurations, myself included for zsh/tmux/vim/git. I haven't found a satisfactory way to sync secrets between machines other than via sneakernet. https://github.com/jamescun/dotfiles
ansible-vault?
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#15Git and Xstow. I have a small shell script that parses the xstow.ini file and creates all the directories I have listed under the [keep-dirs] directive in order to prevent it from deleting empty directories or replacing them with links.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#Read the keep directories from xstow.ini
ini="$(Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#16I try not to deviate from configuration default so that I don't need to manage any dot files.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#17Git repos + https://github.com/AndrewVos/slink
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#18Just git and Github.I have two folders, a .dotfiles (https://github.com/Arc0re/dotfiles) that contains stuff like .emacs (for each OS), .bashrc/.zshrc, etc, which I symlink into my $HOME folder, and an elisp (https://github.com/Arc0re/mac-elisp) folder that contains my Emacs themes and plugins.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#19mr + vcsh
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
#20https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh + myrepos