Alternatively, if your workstations are all relatively similar, you can sledge hammer it and just commit all of ~/.emacs.d/ into a private repo, including the p

Alternatively, if your workstations are all relatively similar, you can sledge hammer it and just commit all of ~/.emacs.d/ into a private repo, including the packages. It saves me the headache of babysitting dependencies (at the cost of probably not being able to move to Linux without some friction? Never tried.) Caveat emptor. Additionally, I recommend judicious use of (when (boundp 'some-thing) (some-thing)), and (fboundp ..), and (if (require 'foobar nil :noerror) (foobar-mode 1)). This avoids the cascade of errors on installation troubles (at the cost of not being alerted if you're missing them).