• dawnofdusk
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    1 year ago

    This is a good one and is what I use. It’s essentially a wrapper around the classic “make ~ version controlled” using a bare git repo. FYI lazygit has a good interface with yadm, as well as emacs’ magit

  • Jason NovingerOPM
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    1 year ago

    I’ve mostly resisted the urge to use a dotfile manager so far, but I’m starting to feel like it’s time. I was excited when I ran across this one and noticed it was written in Python and had Git-like semantics.

    Will play with it this weekend and report back.

    • Andy
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      1 year ago

      It’s honestly excellent. Very capable yet doesn’t complicate things beyond “it’s git” unless you want to check out a fancy feature.

  • Jim
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    1 year ago

    Do y’all use git to store sensitive data like passwords, even encrypted? This does not sit well with me. At work, we use a vault. For personal use, I use a password manager and manually copy and paste those envs.

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        1 year ago

        I concur, which is why I was a bit surprised by this section of yadm’s webpage:

        It can be useful to manage confidential files, like SSH keys, across multiple systems. However, doing so would put plain text data into a Git repository, which often resides on a public system. yadm implements a feature which can make it easy to encrypt and decrypt a set of files so the encrypted version can be maintained in the Git repository.

        (emphasis mine)

        Source: https://yadm.io/docs/encryption