Dotdrop is a dotfiles manager that provides efficient ways of managing your precious config files. It is especially powerful when it comes to managing those across different hosts. The main idea of dotdrop is to have the ability to store each dotfile only once and deploy them with different content on different hosts/setups. To achieve this, it uses a templating engine that allows specifying, during the dotfile installation with dotdrop, based on a selected profile, how (with what content) each dotfile will be installed. Each dotfile is stored only once, dotdrop allows to template your config files such that the same dotfile is customized when deployed on the host you’re working on. Different profiles can be defined that allow for fine-grained control over which dotfiles have to be installed on different hosts (home, work, vps, etc). Some hosts/profiles will have all your dotfiles installed while others might just need a subset of the dotfiles.

Features

  • Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
  • Get easily all your dotfiles imported and use dotdrop to manage them
  • Be it on github, gitlab or your own git solution, git makes sure you are able to keep a history of your changes
  • You can choose for each dotfile if you want it to be symlinked or directly copied to its final destination
  • Actions can be executed each time a specific dotfile is installed
  • Multiple solutions are available to handle dotfiles containing sensitive information as well as fully encrypted dotfiles

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac

Programming Language

Unix Shell

Related Categories

Unix Shell Terminals, Unix Shell File Managers

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2022-04-22