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| “git init --bare $HOME/.myconf” (comment) | ||
| recommended by 6 users | 2016 | StreakyCobra on: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? | git | original thread | | ||
| StreakyCobra on Feb 10, 2016 | on: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? | view on HN | ||
| 6 users recommended this comment. What they said: |
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drexlspivey Aug 2, 2018 | on: Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust | context
I found this brilliant way to manage your dotfiles in an old hn comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 <quote> I use: where my ~/.myconf directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like: And so one… No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation. </quote> |
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claudiawerner Oct 26, 2019 | on: An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools | context
The guide mentions a dotfile manager, but here's something I found[0] on HN a while ago that's really cool: just make your home folder a git repository. |
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bewuethr Sep 20, 2020 | on: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment? | context
This comment where I first learned about using a bare Git repo for dotfiles management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 |
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chrisan May 13, 2021 | on: Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016) | context
Having had the same problem I ended up with this nice setup https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles which is rooted in a post by HN's StreakyCobra https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 It has served me well for a few years now |
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ssivark Dec 22, 2017 | on: Intermediate Vim tips | context
Across linux and OS X, I use a solution based on the this HN comment and it's follow-up discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 Lot of other suggestions on the same HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797 |
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pcr910303 Dec 1, 2019 | on: Show HN: Manage Dotfiles with Stow | context
_The_ method to manage dotfiles is to use git bare repos. [0-1] Its the ideal method as: * It doesn’t require any configuration except for a ‘git init’ once & an alias (no symlinks, no b.s.) * Files are version-controlled * It’s unintrusive & universal: Because it doesn’t move any files or do anything special, there’s no surprising behavior, and you can try out a few files & stop using it with an rm -rf * and on and on... I strongly recommend eveybody trying out, no meed for configuration/mapping, and it’s easy to try out. |
| Also recommended by people who recommended this: | ||
| 1. | “::Sigh:: This sounds like it does not even speak to one of the major fundamental issues” (comment) | |
| recommended by 3 users | 2015 | nullc on: Stellar Consensus Protocol: Proof and Code | original thread | | ||
| 2. | Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout our lives (1992) (ambition-book.com) | |
| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 133 points by milkshakes | original thread | | ||
| 3. | “Have you tried GitX? What you described seems a bit more like GitX than what GitHub is trying to do here.” (comment) | |
| recommended by 1 user | 2011 | bradleyland on: GitHub for Mac | original thread | | ||
I use:
where my ~/.myconf directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like:
And so one…
No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation.