> but what's wrong with having a regular git repo anywhere you want with all of your dotfiles and them symlink those files to where they need to go? Nothing wr

> but what's wrong with having a regular git repo anywhere you want with all of your dotfiles and them symlink those files to where they need to go? Nothing wrong with tracking dotfiles with Git. It's probably the simplest and easiest approach without requiring any fancy tools other than Git. However, as mentioned in ArchLinux's wiki page, the disadvantage of Git approach is that "host-specific configuration generally requires merging changes into multiple branches."[1] [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dotfiles#Tracking_dotfiles_directly_with_Git https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dotfiles#Tracking_dotfi...