This is overkill, but I have a DAG of profiles. Each profile can refer to one or more parent profiles. When I produce a config for a particular profile, a sma

This is overkill, but I have a DAG of profiles. Each profile can refer to one or more parent profiles. When I produce a config for a particular profile, a small Python script applies the profiles starting from the root node(s). To avoid trashing my home directory, this actually is done to the side and committed into a bare git repository (this part is similar to the article). Afterwards, I use `git --git-dir=... --work-tree=~ checkout -p` to apply any changes one-by-one, allowing me to preserve any local edits I may have made. All this is available as a sparsely documented Python package: https://github.com/frutiger/stratum https://github.com/frutiger/stratum