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GitHub does dotfiles |
Why would I want my dotfiles on GitHub?
- Backup, restore, and sync the prefs and settings for your toolbox. Your dotfiles might be the most important files on your machine.
- Learn from the community. Discover new tools for your toolbox and new tricks for the ones you already use.
- Share what you've learned with the rest of us.
If you're just starting out, before you go symlinking everything in ~/*, you
might want to check out some tutorials that discuss how you can
organize your dotfiles. Next, you could look through the general-purpose
dotfiles utilities to find a system you can use to manage your
dotfiles. Some tool-specific frameworks could save you time in
customizing specific programs like your shell.
Prefer to start from a popular base configuration? Check out dotfiles bootstrap repositories. Or just looking for inspiration, to see how others are doing things? Check out other GitHub users' dotfiles.
Want to help out? Great! Submit a feature request, open an issue, or submit a patch.