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[Dotdrop](https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop) is a dotfile manager written in Python3
that provides efficient ways of managing your dotfiles. It is especially powerful when
it comes to managing those across different hosts.

* [✔] **VERSIONED**

  Be it on github, gitlab, gitolite or your own git solution, make
  sure you are able to keep a history of your changes

* [✔] **GET QUICKLY STARTED**

  Quickly get all your dotfiles imported and use dotdrop to manage your dotfiles

* [✔] **NO DUPLICATES, EFFICIENT**

  Each dotfile is stored only once, dotdrop allows to template those
  such that the same dotfile is customized when deployed on the host you're working on

* [✔] **HANDLE MULTIPLE PROFILES**

  Different profiles can be defined that allows for a fine-grained control over which
  dotfiles has to be installed on different hosts (home, work, vps, etc)

* [✔] **GRANULARITY CONTROL OF EACH PROFILE**

  Some hosts/profiles will have all your dotfiles installed while others might just
  need a subset of the dotfiles

* [✔] **TO SYMLINK OR NOT TO SYMLINK**

  You can choose for each dotfile if you want it to be symlinked or
  directly copied to its final destination

* [✔] **POST DEPLOYMENT ACTION**

  Actions can be executed each time a specific dotfile is installed, for
  example to install a package, setup some directories, call a tool to update, etc

* [✔] **HANDLE SENSITIVE INFORMATION**

  Multiple solutions are available to handle dotfiles containing sensitive information
  as well as full encrypted dotfiles/rc files

* [✔] **QUICK COMPARE**

  Quickly compare your local dotfiles with the version managed by dotdrop

… and much more …

Go check [dotdrop](https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop), it does all that!

For more check

* [The readme](https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop/blob/master/README.md)
* [A small example](https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop#example)
* [How people are using dotdrop](https://github.com/deadc0de6/dotdrop#people-using-dotdrop)
* [The blog post](https://deadc0de.re/articles/dotfiles.html)