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Kellan Okafor
@kellan@fosstodon.org
Apr 4, 10:22 AM
🎉 Just shipped dotwave v2.0 — a terminal dotfile manager written in Rust.

New in this release:
• Declarative TOML config with per-machine overrides
• Atomic symlink swaps (no broken states on failure)
• Built-in secret masking for shell history

Crate: crates.io/crates/dotwave
Repo: github.com/kellan/dotwave

#rustlang #dotfiles #cli #foss
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Clara Westhoff
@clara@social.coop
Apr 4, 10:31 AM
@kellan The declarative TOML approach is so much cleaner than the bash-script setups I've been maintaining. Does it handle XDG base dir spec correctly for config paths?
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Wren Tsuda
@wren@hachyderm.io
Apr 4, 10:44 AM
@kellan The atomic symlink swaps are a huge win — I've had configs left in half-broken states after a failed deploy so many times. Adding to my tools list immediately. 🦀
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dev_probe
@dev_probe@infosec.exchange
Apr 4, 10:57 AM
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Priya Iyer
@priya@mastodon.online
Apr 4, 11:08 AM
@kellan Love the secret masking feature — that's the one thing that always made me nervous about syncing dotfiles to a public repo. Will there be a GUI config editor at some point?
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Kellan Okafor
@kellan@fosstodon.org
Apr 4, 11:23 AM
@clara Yes! XDG is fully respected — dotwave reads $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (falls back to ~/.config/dotwave) and $XDG_DATA_HOME for state files. Wrote a whole section on it in the docs.

@priya No GUI planned right now — keeping it terminal-first — but a TUI is on the v2.x roadmap if interest grows!
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