I’m looking for recommendations for a dotfile manager - there are so many out there I’ve got a bit of options paralysis!

I’d like a system that can backup all my dotfiles - with version management - and, if I nuked my home directory, could restore them all for me with a simple command.

Thanks in advance for you suggestions!

  • dinoEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    chezmoi, although I am not sure I like it. Its the first I tried and some stuff seems very complicated.

    • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
      1·
      9 months ago

      What do you find complicated? I’m happy to help you with it. It also seemed complicated to me, but once I understood it it was pretty simple to use (unless you wanna do advanced stuff.)

      • dinoEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        The way the autocommiting works is weird, have to use regular git commands for that. Also templating doesn’t work for me. I was trying to establish a file with the same content across multiple devices in different subfolders but it kind of didn’t work out.

        • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
          1·
          9 months ago

          That’s unfortunate, because I commit manually (I want to write the messages) and I never needed to template the filepaths. I’m using file templates and it works flawlessly tho.