Dotter

SuperCuber · SuperCuber.Dotter

A dotfile manager and templater written in rust.

Dotter is a dotfile manager and templater. Dotfiles are configuration files that usually live in the home directory and start with a dot. Often times, it is desirable to have a backup of all the configurations on your system, which is why a lot of users have their dotfiles saved in a git repository, then symlinking them to their target locations using ln -s. However, there are several issues with that barebones approach: - Hard to keep track of what comes from where once you have more than a handful of dotfiles - Tedious to setup on a new machine - you need to manually create every single link - No real way to handle differences between machines - say you want the battery meter on your bar to not appear on your desktop machine Dotter aims to solve all those problems by providing a flexible configuration and automatic templating or symlinking to the target locations.