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!

  • adONis
    2•1 year ago

    I have a vorta backup, running on a regular basis for my home dir which has GBs of data.

    Mounting and restoring files is literally a matter of seconds.

    But if you want something that you can easily take with you, you can go with a symlink/git approach:

    • have a folder “configs”
    • move all your dotfiles thst have NO sensitive data like credentials into that folder
    • symlink them into their proper place
    • use GIT to track them and push them to a git repo

    Once you need them somewhere else, it’s just a git pull away… easy as that.

    What I dislike about existing solutions, is they come with their own binaries, conventions, and stuff, but basically do almost the same… this is the “raw way” that will hold up on any system, and almost all of them have git.