awesome-dotfiles

dotfile manager

A curated collection of resources and tools for managing dotfiles, providing guidance on setup, configuration, and management.

A curated list of dotfiles resources.

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Awesome Dotfiles / Articles / Introductions
Getting started with dotfiles ( )
Getting started with dotfiles ( )
Managing your dotfiles
Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked
Dotfile discovery
I do Dotfiles!

Awesome Dotfiles / Articles / Tutorials
Setting up a new (OS X) development machine: Part 3 - Dotfiles and custom SSH config
Setting Up a Mac Dev Machine From Zero to Hero With Dotfiles
Using Git and GitHub to manage your dotfiles
conf.d like directories for zsh/bash dotfiles
Managing your dotfiles
The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository
Dotfiles Management

Awesome Dotfiles / Articles / Shell startup
Shell startup scripts
Zsh/Bash startup files loading order

Awesome Dotfiles / Articles / Using specific tools
Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
Managing Dotfile Symlinks with GNU Stow
Dotfiles and dev tools provisioned by Ansible

Awesome Dotfiles / Find dotfiles repos
Google for "dotfiles"
Archlinux collection
path:**/.gitconfig Tip: search for a filename on GitHub, e.g.

Awesome Dotfiles / Example dotfiles repos / Bash
Bash it 14,322 5 months ago
Mathias’s dotfiles 30,424 8 months ago
webpro's dotfiles 1,099 5 months ago
rootbeersoup's dotfiles 72 5 months ago

Awesome Dotfiles / Example dotfiles repos / Zsh
thoughtbot dotfiles 7,992 5 months ago
rcm 3,134 8 months ago Zsh, vim, tmux, git, homebrew. Uses
oh-my-zsh
Prezto 14,041 4 months ago
Dries's dotfiles 2,223 5 months ago
sobolevn's dotfiles 742 4 months ago
yutkat's dotfiles 790 4 months ago
Luke's voidrice 4,306 6 months ago
2KAbhishek's dots2k 247 4 months ago
Zim 3,934 5 months ago

Awesome Dotfiles / Example dotfiles repos / Fish
oh-my-fish 10,522 7 months ago
Paul's dotfiles 4,212 5 months ago
rkalis's dotfiles 248 almost 3 years ago

Awesome Dotfiles / Example dotfiles repos / Ansible
.dots 96 5 months ago
sloria's dotfiles 152 6 months ago

Awesome Dotfiles / Tools
Ansible Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multinode orchestration engine
bashdot 104 about 2 years ago Minimalist dotfile management framework written entirely in bash
chezmoi 13,615 4 months ago Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines
comtrya 514 4 months ago Configuration management for localhost, written in Rust, for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows
dotbare 677 12 months ago Manage dotfiles interactively with fzf
dotbot 7,161 4 months ago Tool that bootstraps your dotfiles
dotdrop 1,800 5 months ago Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
Fisher 7,881 7 months ago A package manager for Fish
fresh Keep your dotfiles fresh. Fresh is a tool to source shell configuration (aliases, functions, etc) from others into your own configuration files
GNU Stow Symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place
homeshick 2,116 6 months ago Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
mackup 14,651 8 months ago Keep your application settings in sync (macOS/Linux)
Pearl 229 about 1 year ago Package manager that allows to control, sync, share dotfiles as packages automatically activated during shells or editors startup. There is a wide range of packages already available. in the (for Linux and OSX)
rcm 3,134 8 months ago rc file (dotfile) management
rotz 355 4 months ago Fully cross platform dotfile manager and dev environment bootstrapper written in Rust
themer 5,522 10 months ago Manage and generate themes across your development tools from within your dotfiles
toml-bombadil 236 4 months ago Templatize and manage your dotfiles
xdg-ninja 2,536 5 months ago A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories
yadm 5,184 4 months ago Tool for managing a collection of files across multiple computers, using a shared Git repository and some additional features

Awesome Dotfiles / Tools / macOS
dockutil 1,384 about 1 year ago Command line tool for managing dock items
mas 11,011 4 months ago Mac App Store command line interface
zero 286 over 1 year ago Radically simple personal bootstrapping tool for macOS

Awesome Dotfiles / Miscellaneous
dotfiles.github.io Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Directory structure and directory contents in Linux distributions
XDG Base Directory Specification -
A lesson in shortcuts - How the idea of "hidden" or "dot" files was born, by Rob Pike (originally posted on Google+)
Awesome Dev Env 2,862 9 months ago Curated list of awesome tools, resources and workflow tips making an awesome development environment
Awesome Fish 4,250 9 months ago Curated list of packages, prompts, and resources for the fish shell
Awesome Shell 33,372 8 months ago Curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos
Awesome Sysadmin 25,924 8 months ago A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources
Awesome Zsh Plugins 15,638 4 months ago List of Zsh plugins suitable for use with oh-my-zsh, antigen & Prezto
Terminals Are Sexy 12,316 9 months ago A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers

Awesome Dotfiles / Archive/abandoned projects
antigen
Bashstrap 1,558 almost 6 years ago
battleschool 417 over 9 years ago
Bork 216 about 4 years ago
Cider 838 over 1 year ago
dev-setup 6,137 about 2 years ago
dotfiles 583 9 months ago
dotstow 98 12 months ago
Eduardo's dotfiles 422 almost 8 years ago
ellipsis 357 almost 3 years ago
emplace 267 4 months ago
holman does dotfiles 7,356 7 months ago
homesick 2,391 over 4 years ago
Kevin's dotfiles 143 5 months ago
kody 139 over 2 years ago
macOS Defaults 1,286 about 5 years ago
osxc
vcsh 2,198 8 months ago ( , )
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