> you want to get an older version of one particular dotfile, you'll also be getting older versions of other dotfiles as well. That doesn't really follow; it i

> you want to get an older version of one particular dotfile, you'll also be getting older versions of other dotfiles as well. That doesn't really follow; it is easy to check out old versions of a single file with git: git checkout <revision> <filename> for ".bashrc from two commits ago on the current branch", that would be: git checkout HEAD~2 .bashrc Hopefully I'm not just misunderstanding your point here.