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GitHub does dotfiles |
Why would I want my dotfiles on GitHub?
- Backup, restore, and sync the prefs and settings for your toolbox. Your dotfiles might be the most important files on your machine.
- Learn from the community. Discover new tools for your toolbox and new tricks for the ones you already use.
- Share what you've learned with the rest of us.
If you're just starting out, before you go symlinking everything in ~/*, you
might want to check out some tutorials that discuss how you can
organize your dotfiles. Next, you could look through the general-purpose
dotfiles utilities to find a system you can use to manage your
dotfiles. Some tool-specific frameworks could save you time in
customizing specific programs like your shell.
Prefer to start from a popular base configuration? Check out dotfiles bootstrap repositories. Or just looking for inspiration, to see how others are doing things? Check out other GitHub users' dotfiles or Reddit's r/dotfiles subreddit.
Want to help out? Great! Submit a feature request, open an issue, or submit a patch.