Awesome dotfiles
A curated list of dotfiles resources. Inspired by the awesome list thing.
Articles
Introduction
- Getting started with dotfiles
- Managing your dotfiles
- Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked
- Dotfile discovery
Tutorials
- Setting up a new (OS X) development machine: Part 3 - Dotfiles and custom SSH config
- Setting Up a Mac Dev Machine From Zero to Hero With Dotfiles
- Using Git and GitHub to manage your dotfiles
- conf.d like directories for zsh/bash dotfiles
Shell startup
Using GNU Stow
Using vcsh & mr
- Manage dotfiles Quickly and Effortlessly
- Managing dot-files with vcsh and myrepos
- Manage dotfiles using vcsh and mr
Using Ansible
Dotfiles repos
A collection of the most popular, well-maintained, and collaborative dotfiles repositories & frameworks. Some projects contain just the dotfiles. Others go further by allowing you to easily add your own custom dotfiles, and/or including scripts to manage dotfiles/plugins.
Bash
| Title | Description | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Bashstrap | Bootstrap for your terminal. A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal. | OS X Terminal, prompt, iTerm. |
| Bash it | Community bash framework. | Autocompletion, themes, aliases, custom functions. Well-structured framework. |
| Mathias’s dotfiles | .files, including ~/.osx — sensible hacker defaults for OS X | Lots of goodness here, great collaborative community effort. |
| Maximum Awesome | Config files for vim and tmux, by Square vimsters. | Vim, tmux. Built for Mac OS X. |
Zsh
| Title | Description | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| thoughtbot dotfiles | Set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files | Zsh, vim, tmux, git, homebrew. Uses rcm. |
| oh-my-zsh | Community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. | Includes 120+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, macports, etc), over 120 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool. |
| Prezto | Prezto is the configuration framework for Zsh. | Enriches the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes. |
| YADR | The best vim, git, zsh plugins and the cleanest vimrc you've ever seen | Homebrew, zsh, git, vim, and more. Active repository. |
| holman does dotfiles | holman does dotfiles | Organized well around topics. Author wants it to work for everyone. |
| antigen | Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle. | Antigen is a small set of functions that help you easily manage your shell (zsh) plugins, called bundles. |
| Eduardo's dotfiles | The first JavaScript-based dotfiles powered by Grunt. | Zsh, Node.js, Ruby, OS X defaults. Installable from npm. |
There are many more great dotfiles repos out there, each containing their own inspiration and gems.
Tip: search for a filename on GitHub, e.g. site:github.com .gitconfig.
Tools
- Ansible - Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multinode orchestration engine.
- battleschool - Development environment provisioning using ansible
- Bork - Bash DSL for config management
- dotbot - Tool that bootstraps your dotfiles
- fresh - Keep your dot files fresh. fresh is a tool to source shell configuration (aliases, functions, etc) from others into your own configuration files.
- GNU Stow - GNU Stow is a 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.
- homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in bash
- homesick - Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind (post).
- mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
- rcm - rc file (dotfile) management
- Super User Stone - SUS manages the deployment of your configuration files (dotfiles) (post).
- vcsh - Version Control System for $HOME, multiple Git repositories in $HOME
OS X
- Cider - Cider is a simple wrapper for Homebrew and Homebrew Cask that allows you to save your setup across different machines.
- dockutil - Command line tool for managing dock items
- kody - Dotfiles runner/manager written in node
- osxc - Set of playbook roles made for OS X configuration
Miscellaneous
- A lesson in shortcuts - How the idea of "hidden" or "dot" files was born, by Rob Pike.
- dotfiles.github.io - Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub.
- dotfiles.org - dotfiles.org is a place to upload, download, and share your dotfiles.
- OS X Defaults - Centralized place for the awesome work started by @mathiasbynens on .osx.
Related Lists
- Awesome Shell - Curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos.
- Awesome Zsh Plugins - List of Zsh plugins suitable for use with oh-my-zsh, antigen & Prezto.
- Awesome Dev Env - Curated list of awesome tools, resources and workflow tips making an awesome development environment.
