Now that 20225 has become “The Year of the Terminal”(R), I have been looking at how managing my dot files in a more coherent way. I was thinking straight up git vs stow, but I should would be very interested in comparisons from those who have used this tool.
daedalus_j · 1m ago
Chezmoi is what you want.
I haven't looked at this one yet, but until someone compares it to Chezmoi and points out where it's better I'm not even looking attention I fear. Chezmoi is just that good.
vault · 46m ago
I've been using "homegit" for years and never felt the need for a replacement.
I found it quite useful. My main use case for it is managing the same dotfiles for Windows and Linux. Specifically that neovim uses different folders and I can set that per OS in dotter.
It also allows for including our not including a config based on an executable being available which can be useful.
It requires some configuration, depending on how many of its features you use but I think it's worth it.
phren0logy · 1h ago
Thanks. I’m between Omarchy and MacOS mostly, but sometimes Windows, too. Seems worth putting some time into it.
defraudbah · 30m ago
I wish it had more examples or some basic documentation website, it looks interesting cuz i have a lot of context switching through all my tools.
I haven't looked at this one yet, but until someone compares it to Chezmoi and points out where it's better I'm not even looking attention I fear. Chezmoi is just that good.
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
It also allows for including our not including a config based on an executable being available which can be useful. It requires some configuration, depending on how many of its features you use but I think it's worth it.