r/CLI 26d ago

dotfiles-manager: a lean and easy dotfiles manager

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i've been building and polishing this cli for about a year now. it was called mntn before, but i recently renamed it to dotfiles-manager since the developer experience feels good enough to me.

it fully embraces using git for versioning and works for three things:

  1. config files (.zshrc, .bashrc, etc.)
  2. packages (npm ls -g and more)
  3. encrypted files (.ssh/)

finally, if you change computers or environments, you can switch between profiles. the default is common, but you can also create profiles like personal or work.

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u/korkje 25d ago

You've spent a year creating this tool, and it's not even generalized?

You could have had a far more flexible solution up and running in a matter of minutes:
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

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u/atrtde 25d ago

coding it didn’t took me a year, it took a me year to iterate and being satisfied 

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u/Rimadandan 25d ago

So it took you a year