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Tutorials
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Tutorials
General-purpose utilities
Tool-specific frameworks
Bootstrap repositories
Inspiration
Tips and tricks
FAQ
Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub.
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General-purpose utilities
Tool-specific frameworks
Bootstrap repositories
Inspiration
Tips and tricks
FAQ
Tutorials
- Dmitry Geurkov wrote an article about his tool called dotcentral.
- The Dreams of Autonomy YouTube channel published a video about using GNU Stow to manage a dotfile repository.
- Drew DeVault wrote about managing his dotfiles as a git repository in his home directory with a .gitignore of
*. - Dries Vints wrote an extensive blog post on why and how he created his dotfiles.
- John Wyatt’s Chef Dotfile Manager Tutorial - This is a complete bootstrap to get a Chef dotfile manager running on a Linux system with examples for packages, templates, and setting up the Atom text editor + Atom packages + Atom configuration.
- Lars Kappert wrote about getting started using a dotfiles repository.
- Mark Rabideau wrote an article on Building a bspwm desktop walking through his setup, including links to the configuration files on github.
- Michael J. Smalley wrote a popular blog post with an associated git repo that includes a dotfiles installer script.
- Nicola Paolucci wrote a tutorial describing an elegant way to manage dotfiles using a Git bare repository.
- Rosco Kalis wrote an article about setting up dotfiles, and a second one specifically about his automated repository management.
- Wes Bos has a series of free videos introducing ZSH, oh-my-zsh, and z.
- Awesome dotfiles contains articles, tools and other resources to get you up to speed with dotfiles.