Awesome dotfiles

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

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

Title	Description	Note
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	Focus on homebrew, zsh, git, vim, and more. Active repository.
thoughtbot dotfiles	A set of vim, zsh, git, and tmux configuration files	Focus on zsh, vim, tmux, git, homebrew. Uses rcm.
Eduardo's dotfiles	The first JavaScript-based dotfiles powered by Grunt.	It can be installed from npm, and has a focus on ZSH, Node.js, Ruby and OSX defaults.

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.

homesick - Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.(post)
homeshick - git dotfile synchronizer written in bash
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.

dotfiles.github.io - Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub.
dotfiles.org - dotfiles.org is a place to upload, download, and share your dotfiles.
OSX Defaults - A centralized place for the awesome work started by @mathiasbynens on .osx