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There's also `homesick`[1], which is a Ruby dotfile manager. If you don't feel like managing a Ruby distro and want something more portable (and `homesick` looks to be a stale project anyway), you can use `homeshick`[2] which is a Bash port that's still being maintained. (I use `homeshick`)

The last time I dug into this, `homeshick` was had more features and fit my needs better than `stow`.

Alternatively, check out YADM[3], "Yet Another Dotfile Manager", which I'm probably switching to once I get some time.

[1] https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick

[2] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

[3] https://yadm.io/

Homeshick for dotfiles: https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

Docker for Obsidian and Alfred syncing - the three target limit on the free tier is just barely enough for 2 of my own computers and my work laptop.

I've also got a Brewfile for installing the basic tooling on macOS

I also have a "how to set up a new computer/server" document on Notion that I use so I don't forget any steps.

I tried bash first, with every bell and whistle added. I tried all the scripts and tuned my .bashrc and .bash_profile and PS1 and all the crap. It was a huge chore.

Then I tried switching to zsh with oh-my-zsh and all that. 42 million tunable bits and I still didn't get it to my liking.

Then I found Fish and 95% of the stuff was good enough out of the box. The only things I've really added was Starship[0] as a prompt - again good enough with pretty much zero configuration and fzf[1] for history search.

Now I use it everywhere, synced via Homeshick[2]

I still use bash to write shell scripts that aren't long enough to be converted to Python though.

[0] https://starship.rs [1] https://github.com/jethrokuan/fzf [2] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

Just throwing my solution for dotfiles synchronization into the mix as well here, homeshick: https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

Maintained for 8 years now, 1.7k stars, only needs git >=1.5, bash >=3, and no root access to install.

It's well tested, stable, and super hackable to fit your needs.

stow is nice, but it's too basic once you start managing your homedir in earnest across multiple machines and need machine-specific configurations, secrets, etc.

I prefer homeshick[0], a Bash port of homesick[1] (which is Ruby).

[0] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick [1] https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick

I am a (happy) user of homeshick (https://github.com/andsens/homeshick), but this project really seems to top it by providing the only feature that I've missed until now:

- use the same source file with different results for different machines (eg. .gitconfig for home and office machines)

- option to store secrets in a credentials database and extract them from there (because you wouldn't want to store them in a git repo - even if it's a private one)

I'll definitively give it a try!

(EDIT: formatting)

This seems to be much more bloated than homeshick [1] that I fail to see the point.

Somebody care to tell me what I'm missing?

[1] https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

I use homeshick (https://github.com/andsens/homeshick), a - as I understand - rewrite of homesick (ruby) in bash.

It needs to be sourced in .{bash,z}shrc and has features like tracking files from multiple repos (so called "castles"), auto-linking, auto-update every X days.

We also use it in our dev team to share some config (and ~/bin) files, works fine.

Have a look at homeshick [1] as well, it seems to have similar functionality.

[1]: https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

You might also checkout https://github.com/andsens/homeshick. Similar idea, but tailored for dotfiles.