Life & fun · November 30, 2019
Manage Dotfiles with Stow
Mirror of https://gitlab.com/risserlabs/community/dotstow - clayrisser/dotstow
Manage Dotfiles with Stow launched on November 30, 2019 with 33 votes, #701 of 3,203 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
Manage Dotfiles with Stow is a guide for organizing and maintaining configuration files across multiple computers using GNU Stow, a symlink manager. It's designed for developers and system administrators who want to keep their dotfiles synchronized and version-controlled. The tool helps users avoid manual file copying by automatically creating symbolic links, making it easier to maintain consistent configurations across different machines and environments.
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Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager2025 · github.com · ▲75Move dotfiles to ~/.config/lnk, get symlinks back, use Git normally. Single binary, no config files, no fluff. Built because chezmoi was too complex and plain Git was too manual.
Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSHDec 2025 · github.com · ▲136Bring your dotfiles to remote machine via SSH. Contribute to FOBshippingpoint/shittp development by creating an account on GitHub.
Cross-platform dotfiles manager written in Rust2023 · github.com · ▲21⚡ A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager. Contribute to Shemnei/punktf development by creating an account on GitHub.
A way to manage dotfiles without silly symlinks and special tools2016 · gist.github.com · ▲8A simple way to manage dotfiles with git without silly symlinks and special tools. Just use negative matches in your .gitignore ! - Git dot files management
DotNetFiddle – JsFiddle for .Net2013 · dotnetfiddle.net · ▲217Test your C# code online with .NET Fiddle code editor.
- DADotmesh – A git-like CLI for application states2018 · dotmesh.com · ▲107
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