awesome-dotfiles

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
in:path .gitconfig Tip: search for a filename on GitHub, e.g.

Awesome Dotfiles / Example dotfiles repos / Bash
Bash it 14,242 3 months ago
Mathias’s dotfiles 30,232 2 months ago
webpro's dotfiles 1,081 17 days ago
rootbeersoup's dotfiles 70 about 20 hours ago

Awesome Dotfiles / Example dotfiles repos / Zsh
thoughtbot dotfiles 7,964 about 2 months ago
rcm 3,124 about 2 months ago Zsh, vim, tmux, git, homebrew. Uses
oh-my-zsh
Prezto 13,983 4 months ago
Dries's dotfiles 2,175 2 months ago
sobolevn's dotfiles 700 3 days ago
yutkat's dotfiles 761 5 days ago
Luke's voidrice 4,277 2 months ago
2KAbhishek's dots2k 235 3 days ago
Zim 3,802 26 days ago

Awesome Dotfiles / Example dotfiles repos / Fish
oh-my-fish 10,430 23 days ago
Paul's dotfiles 4,189 10 days ago
rkalis's dotfiles 247 over 2 years ago

Awesome Dotfiles / Example dotfiles repos / Ansible
.dots 95 5 months ago
sloria's dotfiles 153 5 days ago

Awesome Dotfiles / Tools
Ansible Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multinode orchestration engine
bashdot 102 over 1 year ago Minimalist dotfile management framework written entirely in bash
chezmoi 13,120 about 17 hours ago Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines
comtrya 487 11 days ago Configuration management for localhost, written in Rust, for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows
dotbare 665 6 months ago Manage dotfiles interactively with fzf
dotbot 7,037 4 months ago Tool that bootstraps your dotfiles
dotdrop 1,780 about 2 months ago Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
Fisher 7,712 about 1 month 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 2,081 13 days ago Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
mackup 14,542 about 2 months ago Keep your application settings in sync (macOS/Linux)
Pearl 227 7 months 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 3,124 about 2 months ago rc file (dotfile) management
themer 5,480 4 months ago Manage and generate themes across your development tools from within your dotfiles
toml-bombadil 221 10 days ago Templatize and manage your dotfiles
xdg-ninja 2,454 23 days ago A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories
yadm 5,063 3 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 1,366 8 months ago Command line tool for managing dock items
mas 10,838 2 months ago Mac App Store command line interface
zero 277 about 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 2,830 3 months ago Curated list of awesome tools, resources and workflow tips making an awesome development environment
Awesome Fish 4,168 2 months ago Curated list of packages, prompts, and resources for the fish shell
Awesome Shell 32,900 about 2 months ago Curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos
Awesome Sysadmin 24,909 about 2 months ago A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources
Awesome Zsh Plugins 15,302 5 days ago List of Zsh plugins suitable for use with oh-my-zsh, antigen & Prezto
Terminals Are Sexy 12,216 3 months ago A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers

Awesome Dotfiles / Archive/abandoned projects
antigen
Bashstrap 1,556 over 5 years ago
battleschool 418 almost 9 years ago
Bork 217 over 3 years ago
Cider 839 about 1 year ago
dev-setup 6,118 over 1 year ago
dotfiles 577 3 months ago
dotstow 98 5 months ago
Eduardo's dotfiles 423 over 7 years ago
ellipsis 357 over 2 years ago
emplace 254 10 days ago
holman does dotfiles 7,306 about 1 month ago
homesick 2,390 almost 4 years ago
Kevin's dotfiles 142 16 days ago
kody 139 almost 2 years ago
macOS Defaults 1,270 over 4 years ago
osxc
vcsh 2,193 about 2 months ago ( , )
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