GitHub does dotfiles

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Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub.

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Tutorials
General-purpose utilities
Tool-specific frameworks
Bootstrap repositories
Inspiration
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FAQ

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.

Navigating this site

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 dotfilesbootstrap repositories. Or just looking for inspiration, to see how others are doing things? Check out other GitHub users’dotfiles or Reddit’s r/dotfilessubreddit.

Contribute

Want to help out? Great! Submit a feature request, open an issue, or submit a patch.