Sync Dotfiles

📦 by @davehappyminion

Sync Dotfiles

Backup dotfiles and system config to a git repo.

1. Locate Dotfiles Repo

Check common locations for an existing dotfiles repo:

• ~/dotfiles
• ~/.dotfiles
• ~/Projects/dotfiles

If no repo exists, ask the user where to create one.

2. Sync Shell Config

Copy current shell configuration:

• .zshrc

  ,

  .bashrc

• .zprofile

  ,

  .bash_profile

• .aliases

  ,

  .functions

Strip any secrets or tokens before copying.

3. Sync Git Config

Copy git configuration:

• .gitconfig

• .gitignore_global

4. Sync Package Manager

Export installed packages:

macOS (Homebrew)

Export Brewfile with all installed packages, casks, and taps.

Linux (apt/dnf/pacman)

Export package list.

Node.js

List global npm packages.

Python

List pip packages (or export requirements.txt).

5. Sync Other Configs

Copy other useful configuration files:

• SSH config (not keys!)
• Vim/Neovim config
• Tmux config
• Editor settings (VS Code, etc.)

6. Commit and Push

Using git, commit the changes:

• Add all modified files
• Commit with date: "dotfiles sync YYYY-MM-DD"
• Push to remote

7. Report

📦 Dotfiles Sync

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📊 SYNCED
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✅ Shell config (zshrc, zprofile)
✅ Git config
✅ Brewfile (145 packages)
✅ SSH config
✅ Vim config

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📝 CHANGES
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• zshrc — 3 lines added
• Brewfile — 2 new packages
• gitconfig — unchanged

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✅ COMMITTED & PUSHED
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Commit: abc1234
Message: "dotfiles sync 2026-02-10"

Your configs are backed up!

Notes

• Never sync files containing secrets (.env, API keys, tokens, SSH private keys)
• Check

  .gitignore

  in the dotfiles repo excludes sensitive files
• Schedule weekly for automatic backup
• Use symlinks to link dotfiles repo to actual locations