rcm

I always like to mention rcm. It's not a popular one but I tried probably 10 managers before it and much prefer it to the competition: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

I use rcm: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm It is very simple and easy to use, has no external dependencies, and is sufficiently flexible to handle configurations for different machines and other nifty features. I'm aware of Nix and other solutions, but you can start using rcm in 10 minutes (it's really that easy to use). If you choose Nix, for example, you'll need to spend at least several weeks of time (guessing on experience of others).

Are your per-machine branches mostly distinct, or do they share a lot? I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm and I find my dotfiles share _quite a bit_ in some respects (e.g. neovim config) but are drastically different in others (SSH config as one example) -- keeping things synced _across_ branches sounds very difficult. rcm handles this well, without branches, IMO.

I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm, which works smoothly and includes support for host-specific files

I use rcm. It assumes you keep a separate (potentially version-controlled) folder at ~/.dotfiles or similar, and it provides a suite of tools for managing the symlinks. https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

I use a tool called rcm[0], which is essentially a set of shell scripts for managing symlinks from $HOME into $HOME/.dotfiles. $HOME/.dotfiles can then be a git repo. Some notes: 1. rcm lets you decide make host-specific or host-agnostic dotfiles. For example, I can declare that I want a different `.ssh/config` file for each host, and rcm will figure out which `.ssh/config` to symlink based on the current machine's hostname. 2. The installation process is very simple. It's just shell scripts, so you don't have to worry about a C/C++ compiler or having any pre-reqs installed. Operating system packages exist for the common platforms, and there's also a convenient way to "build" from source using configure && make && make install. The from source option is particularly convenient if you need to change the installation prefix to a user-writab

I once had a setup where I could just clone a repository and run a script to get my dotfiles set up. For Vim, I would just need to then run the command to install the plugins and that was that. Edit: Here is the CLI program that helped me set this up: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

Any love for rcm [1]? I settled on this after trying many dotfiles systems - works for me with just the right feature set. I don't often see it mentioned on dotfiles discussions online though. [1]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm it's great. It has tags to only pull up specific dotfiles (say for emacs, .config etc), and supports configurations for multiple hosts and multiple source folders.

not sure if this is the exact solution to your problem, but rcm (https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm) allows you to create dedicated dotfiles in a .dotfiles directory which are being symlinked back to files, and it has a -t option to create and restore dotfiles with tags. mkrc -t emacs .emacs.d would create a .dotfiles/tag-emacs/ folder and rcup -t emacs restores it.

I use `rcm` from thoughtbot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

I store them in a dotfiles repo that gets pushed to Github occasionally. They get symlinked to my home directory, and I use thoughtbot's rcm[0] tool for managing that. Then I just use a small script that I keep updated to handle installation and setup on a fresh computer. I'll need to take a look at gnu stow now. It seems like it'd be a slightly simpler alternative, and would keep my dotfiles folder a bit better organized. 0. https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

Check out https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm. It has a hook system, so you can have it automatically run commands to install external dependencies – stuff like vim or Emacs plugins.

I'm quite fond of thoughtbot's rcm. https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm