This depends on how you manage your computer. If you put all your personal projects in your home directory this could be a pita. Really what you'll need to do i

This depends on how you manage your computer. If you put all your personal projects in your home directory this could be a pita. Really what you'll need to do is to make heavy use of gitignore. Obviously bash_history changes on every command so that may be one you want to avoid tracking. You may also want to take a look at dotfiles repos on github, which are meant for actively tracking your configuration files instead of seeing what new files have been added.