Show HN: Dotfilehub – Upload, share, and retrieve text files

I've always found the various solutions that use git for sharing configuration files cumbersome. I set out to make my own simple version control system, and a lightweight web application where I can browse and edit them remotely. The main idea is that file paths are aliased to short names, so from the shell I can use:

  dotfile pull emacs

and it will install https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/emacs to ~/.emacs.d/init.el

Dotfilehub is designed to be used with the Dotfile CLI, but it doesn't require it. My goal is to make files always easily accessible. For example, I can always retrieve my vim config with:

  `curl https://dotfilehub.com/knoebber/vim > ~/.vimrc`

The web interface is built on simple HTML and is JavaScript free. I've tested it with terminal based browsers, so users can browse through files without a graphical environment.

Dotfilehub is easy to self host. See https://github.com/knoebber/dotfile for source code.