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Re: Dotfiles Management
#2Checkout chezmoi, I’ve been using it for a few years and it ticks every box for me - various machines, different configs, scripts, passwords etc
Re: Dotfiles Management
#3Checkout chezmoi, I’ve been using it for a few years and it ticks every box for me - various machines, different configs, scripts, passwords etc https://www.chezmoi.io/
I discovered chezmoi a few days ago after getting a new laptop and a wish to normalize my configuration across multiple computers.
Templating is awesome when having computers with differents DPI or screens attached, OS, etc.
Edition with --watch is a breeze, auto commit too!
Re: Dotfiles Management
#4Nice hack, but I still believe that home-manager [0] should be the way to go. It's the gateway drug to the Nix ecosystem and cleanly solves the composability problem which this "one-size-fits-all repo checked out to root" approach will have some trouble with.
Re: Dotfiles Management
#5Checkout chezmoi, I’ve been using it for a few years and it ticks every box for me - various machines, different configs, scripts, passwords etc https://www.chezmoi.io/
On my list of new years resolutions is to finally embrace dotfiles management. This looks like just the ticket. Thanks!
Re: Dotfiles Management
#6Nice hack, but I still believe that home-manager [0] should be the way to go. It's the gateway drug to the Nix ecosystem and cleanly solves the composability problem which this "one-size-fits-all repo checked out to root" approach will have some trouble with. [0] https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
It's definitely a gateway drug worth taking since Nix solves all kinds of other problems too.
Just don't expect to become an expert overnight, it takes a while to sink in (or it did for me).
Re: Dotfiles Management
#7I also use this trick to manage my dotfiles. Here is another good tutorial about it: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
Re: Dotfiles Management
#8Checkout chezmoi, I’ve been using it for a few years and it ticks every box for me - various machines, different configs, scripts, passwords etc https://www.chezmoi.io/
And best of all: it's a single executable that doesn't need any specific installing.
Re: Dotfiles Management
#9I was unhappy with existing solutions, especially I wanted the ability to handle differences between machines. So I built my own! You're welcome to see if you like it :)
Re: Dotfiles Management
#10Checkout chezmoi, I’ve been using it for a few years and it ticks every box for me - various machines, different configs, scripts, passwords etc https://www.chezmoi.io/
I was interested in chezmoi, but they don't want you[1] managing files outside your home directory which made it a non-starter. I need to manage /etc/ and /usr/local/ too.
[1] https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/frequently-asked-questions...