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22 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 3 stories, 19 comments · first 2013-12-13 · latest 2026-06-18

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  1. …not a popular one but I tried probably 10 managers before it and much prefer it to the competition: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by jdxcode · 2026-06-18 · in Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi
  2. I use rcm: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm It is very simple and easy to use, has no external dependencies, and is sufficiently flexible to handle configurations for different machines and other nifty features. I'm aware of Nix and other…
    comment by anticodon · 2024-04-09 · in GNU Stow needs a co-maintainer
  3. Are your per-machine branches mostly distinct, or do they share a lot? I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm and I find my dotfiles share _quite a bit_ in some respects (e.g. neovim config) but are drastically different in others (SSH…
    comment by __float · 2024-04-08 · in Rotz: Cross platform dotfile manager written in Rust
  4. I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm , which works smoothly and includes support for host-specific files
    comment by fcsp · 2023-05-06 · in Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”
  5. …folder at ~/.dotfiles or similar, and it provides a suite of tools for managing the symlinks. https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by aldonius · 2022-10-21 · in Ask HN: What are you using to organize dotfiles / dotconfig files?
  6. …by hostname. If you're curious to learn more about any of this, my dotfiles are public.[2] [0] https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm [1] https://docs.github.com/en/developers/overview/using-ssh-age... [2] https://github.com/jez/dotfiles
    comment by jez · 2022-05-26 · in Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?
  7. …to install the plugins and that was that. Edit: Here is the CLI program that helped me set this up: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by EduardoBautista · 2021-08-11 · in GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces
  8. …the right feature set. I don't often see it mentioned on dotfiles discussions online though. [1]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by swalladge · 2021-05-12 · in A Way to Manage Dotfiles
  9. I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm it's great. It has tags to only pull up specific dotfiles (say for emacs, .config etc), and supports configurations for multiple hosts and multiple source folders.
    comment by Barrin92 · 2019-04-06 · in Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)
  10. not sure if this is the exact solution to your problem, but rcm ( https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm ) allows you to create dedicated dotfiles in a .dotfiles directory which are being symlinked back to files, and it has a -t option to…
    comment by Barrin92 · 2019-02-02 · in Dotfile madness
  11. I use `rcm` from thoughtbot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by gilesvangruisen · 2019-01-14 · in Chezmoi: manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines
  12. …be a slightly simpler alternative, and would keep my dotfiles folder a bit better organized. 0. https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by Bluestrike2 · 2017-04-20 · in Tmux and Vim – better together
  13. Check out https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm . It has a hook system, so you can have it automatically run commands to install external dependencies – stuff like vim or Emacs plugins.
    comment by zachlatta · 2017-02-05 · in Using tmux properly
  14. I'm quite fond of thoughtbot's rcm. https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by ubercow · 2016-04-17 · in Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow
  15. …this. Works very well for keeping my configuration synced between multiple machines (via git). [1] https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by herebolt · 2016-04-17 · in Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow
  16. …also, and have found RCM by Thoughtbot[0] to be an excellent tool for managing said dotfiles. [0]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by unfunco · 2016-01-02 · in vcsh – Version Control System for $HOME
  17. I've been using rcm ( https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm ) for managing my dotfiles and strongly recommend it. It works by symlinking everything from your dotfiles directory to your home directory and gets out of the way. You can also do…
    comment by olalonde · 2015-08-04 · in Dotfiles are your Digital Backpack
  18. Personally I really like https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm . It is simple, and to the point. Using it is straightforward, and it has allowed me to change machines and migrate my dotfiles seamlessly.
    comment by leourbina · 2014-10-21 · in Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
  19. …to look in to ThoughtBot's RCM [1] dotfile management system for something like this, btw. [1]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
    comment by holyjaw · 2014-02-25 · in Your dotfiles and you