Add this awesome technique to manage dotfiles

[Mohit Munjani]

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754
From same link

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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 directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like:

• config status
  config add .vimrc
  config commit -m "Add vimrc"
  config add .config/redshift.conf
  config commit -m "Add redshift config"
  config push

And so on…
No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation.

[Lars Kappert]

Thanks, @mohitmun! I've added the links.