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I've tried this and a lot of other dotfile managers (homesick, homeshick, etc), my current favorite and what I'm using now is YADM: https://yadm.io/ https://ya

I've tried this and a lot of other dotfile managers (homesick, homeshick, etc), my current favorite and what I'm using now is YADM: https://yadm.io/ https://yadm.io/

markstos 5y ago
Same.
goranerik 5y ago
YADM is great. Was suprised I had to scroll this deep to before it was mentioned.
jhrmnn 5y ago
What’s nice about Yadm is that the mental model is so simple that it’s impossible to forget—just a Git repo with worktree in ~.
BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this, I just adopted it.
juniperplant 5y ago
The issue I have with yadm is that, unlike stow, it can't manage directories. For example, if you want to keep track of your whole Firefox profile's directory (without bothering adding/committing single files), in stow it's as simple as symlinking ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_dir>. For programs whose configuration you know intimately this is not a problem (e.g. for bash, we all know we probably just need .bashrc), but not all programs rely on a single flat configuration file.
fnord77 5y ago
I don't understand this - why not just store them in git directly? I have a git project called .linux-env. I can just clone it on any machine and ln my ~/.bashrc/~/.profile to it. Even works on mac.
- res0nat0r 5y ago
  It has a lot of additional features that a plain git repo won't provide, such as alternate files based on OS type, hostname etc: https://yadm.io/docs/alternates# https://yadm.io/docs/alternates#
  - fnord77 5y ago
    that's literally just an if-statement in your bashrc unamestr=`uname` if [[ "$unamestr" == 'Linux' ]]; then source ~/.my_environment/bash/linux/.bashrc else source ~/.my_environment/bash/osx/.bashrc fi etc.
    - res0nat0r 5y ago
      Why would I want to bother with that when I can just use the software above to simplify that for me, in addition to a bunch of other features it offers?

I've tried this and a lot of other dotfile managers (homesick, homeshick, etc), my current favorite and what I'm using now is YADM: https://yadm.io/ https://yadm.io/

markstos 5y ago

Same.

goranerik 5y ago

YADM is great. Was suprised I had to scroll this deep to before it was mentioned.

jhrmnn 5y ago

What’s nice about Yadm is that the mental model is so simple that it’s impossible to forget—just a Git repo with worktree in ~.

BiteCode_dev 5y ago

Thank you for sharing this, I just adopted it.

juniperplant 5y ago

The issue I have with yadm is that, unlike stow, it can't manage directories. For example, if you want to keep track of your whole Firefox profile's directory (without bothering adding/committing single files), in stow it's as simple as symlinking ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_dir>. For programs whose configuration you know intimately this is not a problem (e.g. for bash, we all know we probably just need .bashrc), but not all programs rely on a single flat configuration file.

fnord77 5y ago

I don't understand this - why not just store them in git directly? I have a git project called .linux-env. I can just clone it on any machine and ln my ~/.bashrc/~/.profile to it. Even works on mac.

res0nat0r 5y ago
It has a lot of additional features that a plain git repo won't provide, such as alternate files based on OS type, hostname etc: https://yadm.io/docs/alternates# https://yadm.io/docs/alternates#
- fnord77 5y ago
  that's literally just an if-statement in your bashrc unamestr=`uname` if [[ "$unamestr" == 'Linux' ]]; then source ~/.my_environment/bash/linux/.bashrc else source ~/.my_environment/bash/osx/.bashrc fi etc.
  - res0nat0r 5y ago
    Why would I want to bother with that when I can just use the software above to simplify that for me, in addition to a bunch of other features it offers?