Especially given the fact that things are moving (too slowly) towards the XDG specification, my dotfiles repo is just my ~/.config directory, with a policy of b

Especially given the fact that things are moving (too slowly) towards the XDG specification, my dotfiles repo is just my ~/.config directory, with a policy of basically ignoring everything except those things that I want to track. So my .gitignore looks like /* !.gitignore !/dotfiles !/install_dotfiles.sh !/i3 !/git ... I then have a directory under .config, .config/dotfiles, where I have all of my unfixable dotfiles without the leading ., so to install them I have a script that just does `ln -snf ./$x ~/.$x` instead of messing with sed scripts. This is both self-contained and allows me to manage both XDG-style config and traditional dotfiles.