Essential configuration files are tracked in git using a method similar to The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository.
Once it has been setup, use
cd
dotgit ls-files
to see which files are being tracked.
To install this on a new machine:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rdparker/dotfiles/master/.home_files/setup.csh | csh
or
wget -O -https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rdparker/dotfiles/master/.home_files/setup.csh | csh
On Guix csh and curl are not installed by default, so create an
alias and use wget:
alias csh='guix shell tcsh -- csh'
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rdparker/dotfiles/master/.home_files/setup.csh | csh
The script will create a bare clone of the repository and use an alias to check
files out into the home directory. The files will define the dotgit alias
which is configured to use the cloned repository with $HOME as its working
directory. Then the script will checkout any nonexistent files and report any
preexisting files that differ from the repo.
It is up to the user to merge files which differ, to check in the merged files, and to push the changes to the original repository.
There are more details in dotfiles.org or .home_files/dotfiles.org. One or the other should work depending upon which directory you are reading this from. It contains the notes an other info from when I updated my configuration to use a bare repository.