Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderIt took me 20 years to have an important realization about version controlled dotfiles: what I wanted to do was manage a set of sensible, personalized, non-standard behaviours for each tool I used, and have a way of distributing those across systems. What I didn’t need at all, after all, was anything that installed different things on different hosts or classes of hosts. Luckily, every tool I want to configure has a config file option to include another file, so…
This site seems much more like an some of the awesome-<insert tech here> repositories on github than a guide. Although it does give some extra information on the packages. To not make it took negative. I personally use Chezmoi, which I've been super happy with. The ability to maintain files in a central repository and then pull them into the file system on an update is quite nice. You can handle merge conflicts and whatnot between your local copy and…
If anyone is interested in setting up multiple platform dotfiles or more complicated setup, GNU stow [1] is just pure genius. It's a very simple approach which works very well for me. It's described in this blog post: http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to... [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 652
- Total comments
- 183
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-03 | Your unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub. | pdufour | 2 | 0 |
| 2014-06-23 | Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub | psibi | 3 | 0 |
| 2015-02-14 | GitHub Does Dotfiles | noalis | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-12-12 | Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHubFirst breakout | Perados | 151 | 51 |
| 2017-07-20 | GitHub does dotfiles | varunagrawal | 5 | 0 |
| 2017-11-13 | GitHub does dotfiles – dotfiles.GitHub.io | rayascott | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-04-17 | Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub | edward | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-05-02 | Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub | memorable | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-08-28 | Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHubBest thread | thunderbong | 256 | 61 |
| 2024-05-07 | Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHubLatest 20+ point return | stefankuehnel | 229 | 71 |