Dotfiles manager based on directory trees

Dotstree is a dotfiles manager. "Another one??" I know, right. Here's the highlights:

• The dotfiles are replaced with symlinks
• Every program's deployment spec is stored in its own folder
• Install commands can be part of the deployment
• You can cherrypick which programs to deploy based on which directory trees you pass to dotstree (hence the name)
  • This can be used to handle alternate platforms and dependencies
• You can check and sync programs against their spec
• Written in Python, released to Pypi

Usage

You can install it with pip install dotstree. To see basic usage info, try dots --help. I can provide a tldr page if there's interest - just open an issue. Your dotfiles specs are expected to be in some kind of directory tree that you pass to dotstree. Normally this would be a git repo - but dotstree doesn't care.

Tests

Run pytest . in the repo root.

Further reading

• Details
• Program-specific tips
• Why not GNU Stow?