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!
That seems… Overkill? I just have everything I can’t easily replace in nextcloud synced to a local directory. If I were to nuke my home dir or the whole machine it would take less than hour to setup it again including clean reinstall debian with gnome
You don’t need a dotfile manager, you need proper backups.
$ crontab -e
0 1 * * * tar -cvzf ~/dotfiles-$(date +\%Y\%m\%d).tgz ~/.[^.]* >/dev/null 2>&1
I just let my dotfiles fall where they may, but any version control software should be able to do what you need—they’re just text files, after all. I’d probably go with mercurial, since that’s what I use when I need source control for other purposes (I hate git).
ls and nano 💪
