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!

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    11 months ago

    What do you find complicated? I’m happy to help you with it. It also seemed complicated to me, but once I understood it it was pretty simple to use (unless you wanna do advanced stuff.)

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      11 months ago

      The way the autocommiting works is weird, have to use regular git commands for that. Also templating doesn’t work for me. I was trying to establish a file with the same content across multiple devices in different subfolders but it kind of didn’t work out.

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        11 months ago

        That’s unfortunate, because I commit manually (I want to write the messages) and I never needed to template the filepaths. I’m using file templates and it works flawlessly tho.