volllly/rotz

Dotted vs Rotz

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Hey there, I'm looking for a crossplatform dotfile managing solution, and stumbled across Dotted/Rotz. My main OS is Windows but I have several devices running several different Linux distros. I'm happy to keep using scoop/other package managers to managing installing/uninstalling/updating programs, but I was just wondering if Rotz was ready to use now purely as an alternative to stow for dotfile managing, or if I should use something else in the meantime?

Hey, I use also mostly use Rotz on windows at the moment. The latest version I released today is also working on linux (and probably macos but I have not tested that yet ^^).

Using it as a stow alternative should be working 👌 But let me know if you run into any problems or questions. Any feedback is appreciated.

Right now the following works:
You can use rotz clone git@github.com:<user>/<repo>.git to clone your dotfile repo and rotz link to link all dotfiles.

Here's an example how to setup the repo https://github.com/volllly/.dotfiles (or look at the not yet perfect docs)

Dotted uses the same config format so you could also use it but for managing the dotfiles the functionality is all in Rotz already (except the for rotz sync command which commits and syncs the dotfiles git repo)