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Note: 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.

git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
  • The first line creates a folder ~/.dotfiles which is a Git bare repository that will track our files.
  • Then we create an alias config which we will use instead of the regular git when we want to interact with our configuration repository.
  • We set a flag - local to the repository - to hide files we are not explicitly tracking yet. This is so that when you type config status and other commands later, files you are not interested in tracking will not show up as untracked.
  • Also you can add the alias definition by hand to your .zshrc or use the the fourth line provided for convenience.
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