I'm the author of the article. I think that the fact of having a repository actually is more appropriate, because (at least for me) dotfiles are really not a st

I'm the author of the article. I think that the fact of having a repository actually is more appropriate, because (at least for me) dotfiles are really not a static set of files. At least say, once a week, I end up changing something, something that I'm not 100% sure I'll adopt in my workflow. So I create a branch for that change that I can safely delete later if needs be.