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Life & fun · November 12, 2012

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fresh - a tool to manage and distribute dot files (think Bundler)

fresh - a tool to manage and distribute dot files (think Bundler) launched on November 12, 2012 with 23 votes, #81 of 543 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

Fresh is a tool that lets developers manage and distribute dotfiles by sourcing shell configuration like aliases and functions from other users into their own setups. It supports configuration files including ackrc and gitconfig. Designed for those who want to organize and share shell customizations across projects and teams, fresh works similarly to Bundler for dependency management but focuses on dotfile distribution and reuse.

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From the sources

fresh is a tool to source shell configuration (aliases, functions, etc.) from others into your own configuration files. We also support files such as ackrc and gitconfigfrom freshshell.com

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