Learn to say popular dotfiles management and syncing tool names correctly.
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How is chezmoi (tool for managing dotfiles across multiple machines securely) correctly pronounced?
chezmoi is pronounced 'SHAY-mwah' — French for 'at my house', stress on the second syllable. In a technical interview: "chezmoi templated the config so the same dotfiles worked on both my work laptop and my home desktop."
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How is GNU Stow (symlink farm manager commonly used to organize dotfiles) correctly pronounced?
GNU Stow is pronounced 'guh-NOO STOH' — 'GNU' said as 'guh-noo' plus 'stow', exactly like the everyday word for storing something away. In a technical interview: "Stow symlinked the whole vim config folder into my home directory with one command."
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How is yadm (Yet Another Dotfiles Manager, a Git-based tool for tracking dotfiles) correctly pronounced?
yadm is pronounced 'YAD-um' — short for 'Yet Another Dotfiles Manager', stress on YAD. In a technical interview: "yadm tracked my dotfiles in a bare Git repo, so I never had to symlink anything by hand."
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How is rcm (thoughtbot's suite of dotfile management tools) correctly pronounced?
rcm is pronounced 'AR-SEE-EM' — every letter spoken individually, R-C-M, short for 'rc management'. In a technical interview: "rcm linked every rc file from our shared dotfiles repo into a fresh machine in one step."
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How is dotbot (lightweight, minimalist dotfiles installer configured with a single YAML file) correctly pronounced?
dotbot is pronounced 'DAHT-baht' — 'dot' (from dotfiles) plus 'bot', stress on DAHT. In a technical interview: "dotbot read one YAML file and linked every dotfile into place automatically."