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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!

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[–] CaptainJack42@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

git.

In all honesty, I'd just write a bash script, potentially reading from a file listing all the dotfiles you want to back up, copy them into some directory and pushing to a git repo. Run that script on a systemd timer (or manually) and write another script deploying them into the correct locations

[–] perivesta@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

That's basically what dotbot does I think. Can recommend