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Welcome to the dotdrop wiki!

The idea of dotdrop is to have the ability to store each dotfile only once and deploy them with a different content on different hosts/setups. To achieve this, it uses jinja2 which is a templating engine that allows to specify, during the dotfile installation with dotdrop, based on a selected profile, how (with what content) each dotfile will be installed.

Most information on using dotdrop are described in this wiki and in the readme. For more check

• a quick overview of dotdrop features
• the blogpost on dotdrop
• an example
• how people are using dotdrop

For more examples of config file, search github.

Wiki pages

• Documentation
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Config file format
  • Templating
• How To
  • Store sensitive dotfiles
  • Symlink dotfiles
  • Store compressed directories
  • Merge files when installing
  • Append to a dotfile
  • Manage system/global config files
  • Handle special chars
  • Share content across dotfiles
  • Ignore patterns
• Related projects
• Troubleshooting