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Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.

16 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 0 stories, 16 comments · first 2011-05-16 · latest 2022-07-27

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  1. …YADM[3], "Yet Another Dotfile Manager", which I'm probably switching to once I get some time. [1] https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick [2] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick [3] https://yadm.io/
    comment by jasonpeacock · 2022-07-27 · in Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
  2. …a Bash port of homesick[1] (which is Ruby). [0] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick [1] https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
    comment by jasonpeacock · 2019-12-01 · in Show HN: Manage Dotfiles with Stow
  3. I use Homesick ( https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick ). It's basically a dotfile manager. Symbolically links your stuff and runs scripts.
    comment by pedrospdc · 2016-02-10 · in Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
  4. A different solution, that's a little more embedded in the Github and Ruby world: homesick ( https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick ).
    comment by Doches · 2015-08-04 · in Dotfiles are your Digital Backpack
  5. …for reading documentation; - Hub ( https://github.com/github/hub ) to make Git better; - Homesick ( https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick ) for keeping your dotfiles backed up properly Some other things you may want to look into for…
    comment by devinhalladay · 2014-07-20 · in Ask HN: MacBook Air for Web Development?
  6. I've had success syncing my SublimeText config across machines using homesick ( https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick ), but this looks pretty slick. One issue with syncing configs using either method right now is that certain…
    comment by powdahound · 2014-02-15 · in Show HN: Sublimall, SublimeText synchronized
  7. …WARNING: SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION BELOW Unless, you know, you used something like homes(h)ick... https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
    comment by ChristianBundy · 2014-02-12 · in Show HN: ssh and cd get married
  8. just for completeness sake and because no one mentioned it yet: https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick yes, you need ruby for it but I dont really see that as a problem. Its a bit confusing at first (could be just me, but I still…
    comment by schabernakk · 2013-09-05 · in Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
  9. …that seems to also do what ghar does. I have no opinion on whether one or the other is better :) https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
    comment by patcon · 2013-03-17 · in Dots - Modularize your dotfiles
  10. …to git, and doing it in-place instead of linking specific files from a ~/.dotfiles or similar. (See https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick for an example of how to do it right.)
    comment by damncabbage · 2013-02-19 · in Things I found on GitHub: shell history
  11. Homesick is another good one https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
    comment by jedahan · 2012-11-30 · in Love Your Terminal
  12. If you're looking for a mature alternative, there's homesick @ https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick . I use it everywhere and it's great. Unfortunately, it does have a ruby dependency.
  13. I use this ruby script: https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
    comment by tuxcanfly · 2011-11-18 · in Steve Losh's .vimrc
  14. …rather than crippling yourself with a limited configuration. Someone else mentioned Homesick ( https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick ) which works really well.
    comment by lynndylanhurley · 2011-08-21 · in What is in your .vimrc
  15. Thank you. Here is a link to homesick for others: https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
    comment by nyellin · 2011-08-20 · in What is in your .vimrc
  16. I use homesick https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick