sheldon

A fast, configurable, shell plugin manager.

Features

• Can manage virtually anything.
  • Any public Git repository.
    • Branch/tag/commit support.
    • Extra support for GitHub repositories.
    • Extra support for Gists.
  • Arbitrary remote files, simply specify the URL.
  • Local plugins, simply specify the directory path.
• Highly configurable install methods using handlebars templating.
• Super-fast parallel installation.
• Configuration file using TOML syntax.
• Uses a lock file for much faster loading of plugins.

Getting started

You can install the sheldon command line tool using

cargo install sheldon

Create a configuration file at ~/.zsh/plugins.toml.

[plugins.oh-my-zsh]
github = 'robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh'

Read up more about configuration here.

You can then use the source command to generate the script

# ~/.zshrc
source <(sheldon source)

License

This project is dual licensed under the Apache 2.0 License and the MIT License.

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for more details.