mcfg 7.36

Dotfiles management package

Welcome to machineconfig

Machineconfig is a package for managing configuration files (aka dotfiles). The idea is to collect those critical, time-consuming-files-to-setup in one directory and reference them via symbolic links from their original locations. Thus, when a new machine is to be setup, all that is required is to clone the repo in that machine and create the symbolic links. Dotfiles are divided into private and public. Examples of private ones are, ~/.gitconfig, ~/.ssh, etc. Whereas public config files are ones like lfrc. The private dotfiles are placed @ ~/dotfiles. The files therein are encrypted before backedup.

Install On Windows:

# Temporary install:
iex (iwr bit.ly/cfgwindows).Content
# Or, if UV is installed:
iex (uvx machineconfig define)
# Permanent install:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"  # Skip if UV is already installed
uvx install --upgrade machineconfig

Install On Linux and MacOS

# Temporary install:
. <(curl -L bit.ly/cfglinux)
# Or, if UV is installed:
. <(uvx machineconfig define)
# Permanent install:
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh  # Skip if UV is already installed
uvx install --upgrade machineconfig

Author

Alex Al-Saffar. email

Contributor

Ruby Chan. email