Dotfiles Management

chezmoiBecause it is important to centralize all your dotfiles.Disclaimer: I’m a chezmoi user.https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi

You could use a dotfiles manager like https://yadm.io/It's more or less a wrapper of git, but it comes with a bunch of features that allow you to do the things you describe.

Have you considered using a dotfiles management solution like gnu stow?

Either a dedicated dotfile or just use Syncthing.

GNU Stow[1] referencing a git repo in ~/.dotfiles is what I use for that.You might consider it hackish, but at least there are plenty of tools out there for managing it :)[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

Related: How do people manage their dotfiles? I have mine in a git repository, but then I have a hand maintained bash script to make symlinks from the right paths to those files in the repo.

Anecdotal comment: Check out Chezmoi. Its worked really well for me.

Why not store everything in a Git repo, and symlink the dotfiles to the right place?

For dotfiles I use the workflow from this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 with a keybase encrypted repo I use: git init --bare $HOME/.myconf alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME' config config status.showUntrackedFiles no where my ~/.myconf

What I do is just keep all of the dotfiles in ~/dotfiles and symlink them to the home directory, then I can keep track of them with git. Doesn't have to be any more work than that. Maybe it's not an issue for me because I only use one machine, and when I switch to another, I just pull down my dotfiles from github and symlink them again. I only do this every couple years.