I do a variation on this where I have an alias in bash for `dit` that makes it `git --git-dir=~/.config/dit --work-tree=~` and use that to manage my dot files.

I do a variation on this where I have an alias in bash for `dit` that makes it `git --git-dir=~/.config/dit --work-tree=~` and use that to manage my dot files. Avoids a bunch of the common issues with using git directly.