For dotfiles I use the workflow from this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 with a keybase enc

For dotfiles I use the workflow from this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 with a keybase encrypted repo <quote> I use: git init --bare $HOME/.myconf alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME' config config status.showUntrackedFiles no where my ~/.myconf directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like: config status config add .vimrc config commit -m "Add vimrc" config add .config/redshift.conf config commit -m "Add redshift config" config push And so one… No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation. </quote>