anishathalye/dotbot
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A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
19 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 7 stories, 12 comments · first 2014-03-21 · latest 2024-09-21
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Ask HN: How do you manage your dotfiles?story by nbbaier · 2024-09-21 · 1 comment
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…are other more complete solutions that are more robust and flexible. Personally I like dotbot ( https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot ) as a balance between power and simplicity, particularly when managing files across multiple OS…
comment by ctur · 2024-09-06 · in Better Dotfiles -
…a shell startup script[2] and found it performant enough that I couldn't tell the difference. 1: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot 2: https://gist.github.com/RulerOf/f41259f493b965c9354c2564d85b...
comment by RulerOf · 2024-06-23 · in Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) -
…want some way to copy them to a new machine. Some dotfile managers are quite simple, like dotbot. https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot Home Manager from the Nix community is a bit more sophisticated. It allows for writing configurations…
comment by rgoulter · 2024-01-22 · in Nix Home Manager Option Search -
Dotbot ( https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot ) has worked extremely well for me. It’s simple to setup, has minimal dependencies, and it is also easy to run arbitrary commands if I want to get tricky with things. I would highly recommend…
comment by jonwest · 2023-01-08 · in Dotfiles Management -
I do a similar thing, but with dotbot instead https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot
comment by DiabloD3 · 2021-05-12 · in A Way to Manage Dotfiles -
…to be more capable (and more complex) than dotbot [2] [1] https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi [2] https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot#plugins
comment by mthwsjc_ · 2021-04-19 · in Ask HN: Dotfiles Management Tools? -
…do people manage secrets, I am encrypting with keybase, but really want to move away from it. [0]: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot
comment by leipert · 2020-12-28 · in Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012) -
Check out dotbot[1] and the brewfile[2] plugin 1: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot 2: https://github.com/sobolevn/dotbot-brewfile
comment by TaqPolymerase · 2020-07-27 · in Setting up my MacBook from Scratch -
…keep mine in a git repository, but I use dotbot[1] to manage the symlinks to the proper paths. [1] https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot
comment by anuragsoni · 2019-10-23 · in My transition to an Ubuntu workstation -
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Dotbot, a tool that bootstraps your dotfilesstory by oscarsix · 2017-09-22 · 1 comment
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…copy things to. So if you simply choose not to use it later it's not that difficult to migrate. [1] https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/
comment by lamlam · 2017-09-08 · in Using GNU Stow to manage dotfiles (2013) -
…[1] for managing and installing my dotfiles, but there are plenty of other options listed. [1] https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/
comment by antaflos · 2017-01-15 · in Mastering Bash and Terminal -
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Dotbot: A better way to organize your dotfilesstory by leblancfg · 2016-10-23 · 0 comments
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…s://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos I use something similar, along with dotbot ( https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot ) to wire up other application’s settings files. There’s lots of good examples around to steal and…
comment by psylence519 · 2016-08-03 · in How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development -
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Dotbot: Bootstrap your Dotfilesstory by darfs · 2016-05-16 · 0 comments
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Dotbot – Bootstrap your dotfilesstory by tejasmanohar · 2015-03-02 · 0 comments
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Dotbot: a tool for bootstrapping dotfilesstory by dasmithii · 2014-07-14 · 0 comments
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Dotbot: A dotfiles bootstrapper for a better way to organize your dotfilesstory by anishathalye · 2014-03-21 · 0 comments