Awesome dotfiles

A curated list of dotfiles resources. Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Articles

• Getting started with dotfiles
• Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked
• Using Git and GitHub to manage your dotfiles
• Setting Up a Mac Dev Machine From Zero to Hero With Dotfiles
• Dotfile discovery

Dotfiles repos

A small collection of popular, well-maintained, and collaborative dotfiles repositories.

Title	Description	Focus
holman does dotfiles	holman does dotfiles	Organized well around topics. Author wants it to work for everyone.
Mathias’s dotfiles	.files, including ~/.osx — sensible hacker defaults for OS X	Lots of goodness here, great collaborative community effort.
YADR	The best vim, git, zsh plugins and the cleanest vimrc you've ever seen	Homebrew, zsh, git, vim, and more. Active repository.
thoughtbot dotfiles	A set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files	Zsh, vim, tmux, git, homebrew. Uses rcm.
Eduardo's dotfiles	The first JavaScript-based dotfiles powered by Grunt.	Zsh, Node.js, Ruby, OS X defaults. Installable from npm.
Bashstrap	Bootstrap for your terminal. A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal.	OS X Terminal, prompt, iTerm.
Bash it	A community bash framework.	Autocompletion, themes, aliases, custom functions. Well-structured framework.

There are many more great dotfiles repos out there, each containing their own inspiration and gems.

• Search GitHub for "dotfiles"
• Google for "dotfiles"
• Archlinux collection

Tip: search for a filename on GitHub, e.g. site:github.com .gitconfig.

Tools

• homesick - Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.(post)
• homeshick - git dotfile synchronizer written in bash
• Bork - a bash DSL for config management
• fresh - Keep your dot files fresh. fresh is a tool to source shell configuration (aliases, functions, etc) from others into your own configuration files.
• rcm - rc file (dotfile) management
• 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.

OS X

• dockutil - command line tool for managing dock items

Misc.

• 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 - A centralized place for the awesome work started by @mathiasbynens on .osx.

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