Tools / Ansible

• OpenBoot (⭐207) - Mac dev environment manager that captures and restores Homebrew packages, dotfiles, shell configuration, and macOS preferences via interactive TUI.

Articles / Using specific tools

• Managing Dotfile Symlinks with GNU Stow

Find dotfiles repos / Using specific tools

• Tip: search for a filename on GitHub, e.g. path:**/.gitconfig.

Tools / Ansible

• rotz (⭐423) - Fully cross-platform dotfile manager and dev environment bootstrapper written in Rust.

Tools / Ansible

• xdg-ninja (⭐3.2k) - A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories.

Miscellaneous / macOS

• A lesson in shortcuts - How the idea of "hidden" or "dot" files was born, by Rob Pike (originally posted on Google+).

Archive/abandoned projects / macOS

• macOS Defaults (⭐1.4k)

Articles / Tutorials

• Setting Up a Mac Dev Machine From Zero to Hero With Dotfiles

Articles / Tutorials

• Dotfiles Management

Tools / Ansible

• themer (⭐5.8k) - Manage and generate themes across your development tools from within your dotfiles.

Miscellaneous / macOS

• dotfiles.github.io - Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub.

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Archive/abandoned projects / macOS

• antigen

• dotstow (⭐99)

• YADR

Articles / Introductions

• Managing your dotfiles, Lars Kappert

Tools / Ansible

• comtrya (⭐606) - Configuration management for localhost, written in Rust, for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows.

Articles / Introductions

• I do Dotfiles!, Jogendra

Tools / Ansible

• toml-bombadil (⭐325) - Templatize and manage your dotfiles.

Archive/abandoned projects / macOS

• dotbare (⭐726)

Articles / Introductions

• Getting started with dotfiles, Lars Kappert

• Getting started with dotfiles, Dries Vints

Tools / Ansible

• Ansible - Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multinode orchestration engine.

• 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.

• rcm (⭐3.2k) - rc file (dotfile) management.

• yadm (⭐6.2k) - Tool for managing a collection of files across multiple computers, using a shared Git repository and some additional features.

Miscellaneous / macOS

• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Directory structure and directory contents in Linux distributions.

• XDG Base Directory Specification - Summary

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Archive/abandoned projects / macOS

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• vcsh (⭐2.3k) (article, article)

Articles / Introductions

• Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked, Zach Holman

• Dotfile discovery, Wynn Netherland

Articles / Tutorials

• Setting up a new (OS X) development machine: Part 3 - Dotfiles and custom SSH config

• 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

Articles / Shell startup

• Shell startup scripts

• Zsh/Bash startup files loading order

Articles / Using specific tools

• Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles

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Find dotfiles repos / Using specific tools

• Google for "dotfiles"

• Archlinux collection

Tools / Ansible

• chezmoi (⭐19k) - Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines.

• dotbot (⭐7.8k) - Tool that bootstraps your dotfiles.

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• Fisher (⭐9.1k) - A package manager for Fish.

• homeshick (⭐2.2k) - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash.

• mackup (⭐15k) - Keep your application settings in sync (macOS/Linux).

Tools / macOS

• dockutil (⭐1.5k) - Command line tool for managing dock items.

• mas (⭐12k) - Mac App Store command line interface.

Archive/abandoned projects / macOS

• bashdot (⭐107)

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• battleschool (⭐419)

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