Dotdrop is a dotfiles manager that provides efficient ways of managing your precious config files. It is especially powerful when it comes to managing those across different hosts.

The main idea of dotdrop is to have the ability to store each dotfile only once and deploy them with a different content on different hosts/setups. To achieve this, it uses a templating engine that allows to specify, during the dotfile installation with dotdrop, based on a selected profile, how (with what content) each dotfile will be installed.

Get easily all your dotfiles imported and use dotdrop to manage them

• [✔] VERSIONED WITH GIT

  Be it on github, gitlab or your own git solution, git makes sure you are able to keep a history of your changes

• [✔] NO DUPLICATES, EFFICIENT, TEMPLATED

  Each dotfile is stored only once, dotdrop allows to template your config files such that the same dotfile is customized when deployed on the host you’re working on

• [✔] HANDLE MULTIPLE PROFILES WITH MORE GRANULARITY

  Different profiles can be defined that allows for a fine-grained control over which dotfiles has to be installed on different hosts (home, work, vps, etc). Some hosts/profiles will have all your dotfiles installed while others might just need a subset of the dotfiles

• [✔] TO SYMLINK OR NOT TO SYMLINK

  You can choose for each dotfile if you want it to be symlinked or directly copied to its final destination

• [✔] PRE/POST DEPLOYMENT ACTIONS

  Actions can be executed each time a specific dotfile is installed, for example to install a package, setup some directories, call a tool to update, etc

• [✔] HANDLE SENSITIVE INFORMATION

  Multiple solutions are available to handle dotfiles containing sensitive information as well as fully encrypted dotfiles/rc files

• [✔] QUICK COMPARE

  Compare your local dotfiles with the one managed by dotdrop to quickly see what changed.

… and much more …

Go check dotdrop, it does all that!

For more check

• The readme
• The documentation