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Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

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Re: Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

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Post by fforflo »

diego898 wrote: post #7

Gnu stow has finally been updated to fix a long standing issue so I can once again wholeheartedly recommend it again! It’s lightweight and uses symlinks. Last I checked, chezmoi has a symlink mode but it’s a bit worse.

I guess you're referring to this ? https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/65

Re: Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

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Post by yoyohello13 »

gbrindisi wrote: post #10

the ultimate bikeshedding with dotfiles is home-manager with nix, an infinite cacophony of deep pain and enlightened pleasure

Yes, I've gone through every style of dotfile management. Stow, bare git repo, custom script, and now nix with home-manager. Using Nix is definitely the best solution so far, largely because not only does it manage the configurations, but also installs the programs you need.

Re: Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

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Post by nirvdrum »

I've had really good luck with vcsh and git-crypt. vcsh can be a little awkward to use because git commands need to be scoped to the vcsh project, but you get used to it. I like having separate git repos for separate roles (e.g., fish-common, fish-personal, fish-work). Then, depending on what I'm doing on a particular machine I can pull in just the roles I need. It may seem like overkill, but I've found it very helpful in sharing my dev config without pulling personal stuff onto a work machine, vice versa.

git-crypt allows me to protect sensitive files while still tracking them in a git repo. I don't think I'd rely on it for shared projects, but it works well for me.

Re: Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

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Post by rgoulter »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #32
gbrindisi wrote: post #10

the ultimate bikeshedding with dotfiles is home-manager with nix, an infinite cacophony of deep pain and enlightened pleasure

Yes, I've gone through every style of dotfile management. Stow, bare git repo, custom script, and now nix with home-manager. Using Nix is definitely the best solution so far, largely because not only does it manage the configurations, but also installs the programs you need.

Plus, Nix allows for installing the same versions of those programs everywhere you're using Nix.

Re: Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

gbrindisi wrote: post #10

the ultimate bikeshedding with dotfiles is home-manager with nix, an infinite cacophony of deep pain and enlightened pleasure

The one thing that makes me hesitate with nix is that it only really supports Linux and Darwin; of the BSDs only FreeBSD has any support (somewhat suboptimal still), and AIUI Windows is also unsupported.

Re: Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub

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Post by JimDabell »

botanical wrote: post #37

I'm using yadm for some years now, which works really well: https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm

I’ve tried a bunch of these out and settled on yadm as well. It’s basically a shim for Git that tracks your home directory with a bare repo stored elsewhere.
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