Move all your beloved dotfiles to a subdirectory and automagically track changes with git

dotfiles.sh

mkdir -p ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
git init
cd ~/
find ~/ -maxdepth 1 -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*[.](bash|zsh|profile|Xresources|xinitrc|vimrc|function|alias|sig|tmux|xbind|netrc|nethack|fasd|viminfo|selected_editor|tool-versions).*' -type f,l -exec mv -t ~/.dotfiles/ '{}' \;
find ~/.dotfiles -maxdepth 1 -type f,l -exec ln -s -t ~/ '{}' \;
crontab -l | cat<<EOF |crontab -
*/5 * * * * bash -c "cd ~/.dotfiles && git add . && git commit -m \$(echo \$(date +\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M))" >> /dev/null
EOF