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Dotties is a Mac tool for managing your dotfiles via Github.

Dotties packages are extensions that can be shared. Your entire dotfiles repo is a dotties package, so you can install it on multiple computers to keep your dotfiles in sync. You can also install extensions from others to enhance your own dotfiles. For example, the search behavior in .vimrc can be extracted as an extension which can be added to your existing configuration through dotties package management.

Dottie works with Github for package management, so any short GitHub url can be a dotties package. For instance https://github.com/blainesch/dotties would be installed as blainesch/dotties. So converting your current dotfiles into a dotties repo is seamless.

brew tap tinytacoteam/formulae
brew install dotties

To get started check out my core file

dotties --version
dotties install blainesch/dotties

TO BE FILLED OUT. Include details such as dotties.yml, commands to install and update packages etc.

Dotties package is just a collection of dotfiles such as vimrc, tmux.conf etc. These files might already exist in your computer but dotties will make sure that your config file and the package's config file are both included correctly.

In order to achieve this Dotteis will create a single config file (say ~/.tmux.conf) in your home directory that sources both your tmux.conf and your package's tmux.conf.

Files from the packages are installed in ~/.dotties/packages/${USERNAME-REPO} and are never modified by dotties, so feel free to update these files in place and commit them back to GitHub.