I was searching for this earlier, I came across a HN post which someone from Atlassian write up really nicely: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best

I was searching for this earlier, I came across a HN post which someone from Atlassian write up really nicely: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-store-dotfiles-git-bare-repo/ https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-sto... No extra tools (just git), no symlinks.