{"id":29221,"date":"2019-01-15T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=29221"},"modified":"2019-01-15T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:14:52","slug":"managing-dotfiles-with-rcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/15\/managing-dotfiles-with-rcm\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing dotfiles with rcm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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These days it is a common practices to manage, version, and share configuration files for command line tools (bash, vim, etc) via a GitHub repository. There are plenty of open repositories to study and borrow things from, as well as the tools and scripts to help one with setting things up. Have a look at the awesome-dotfiles<\/a> – a curated list of dotfiles resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fedora Magazine<\/a> runs an article about rcm<\/a> – one of the many tools that are handy for managing dotfiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I haven’t heard of rcm until now. My own setup went through several iterations, varying from custom scripts, to Puppet, and now to Ansible. Have a look here<\/a>. By the way, my dotfiles aren’t only about the command line tools. I also keep my desktop environment configuration in there (MATE + i3<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

These days it is a common practices to manage, version, and share configuration files for command line tools (bash, vim, etc) via a GitHub repository. There are plenty of open repositories to study and borrow things from, as well as the tools and scripts to help one with setting things up. 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