This is a nice trick. But if you: * use a dedicated work machine and * also want to version control your dotfiles (including ~/.config/git/) and * don't want

This is a nice trick. But if you: * use a dedicated work machine and * also want to version control your dotfiles (including ~/.config/git/) and * don't want to leak your work repository organisation via your dotfiles, you can instead add something like [include] path = work.gitconfig which will override any settings above it and also fail gracefully/silently if work.gitconfig does not exist.