great suggestion. I added an alias of 'dotfiles' to my environment which prefixes the git command with the GIT_DIR and GIT_WORKDIR described above. Now when I w

great suggestion. I added an alias of 'dotfiles' to my environment which prefixes the git command with the GIT_DIR and GIT_WORKDIR described above. Now when I want to work with my dotfiles I just use that command instead of 'git' directly.