My dotfiles have a massive .gitignore in them for all the things I don't want to share, or can't easily divide into shareable and non-shareable. The largest sec

My dotfiles have a massive .gitignore in them for all the things I don't want to share, or can't easily divide into shareable and non-shareable. The largest section in my .gitignore is: # Some transient, some configuration files, but configuration files get written # out every time, and not just the changed values. Some also contain # machine-specific configuration, and private data. It includes things like .config/libreoffice , which is a baffling combination of: - backup copies of documents (which should go elsewhere) - copies of icons from the icon theme (which should go elsewhere) - log files (which should go elsewhere) - piles of binary pack files, probably containing a mix of things - configuration in XML form (potentially useful to version), but with embedded lists of recently opened files (private, should go elsewhere), including base64-encoded thumbnails.