Hugo • 4/18/2023

Tracking dotfiles

Read Original

This article discusses the practice of tracking dotfiles (user configuration files) with Git. It details the author's personal experience since 2012, highlighting benefits like easy rollback, change history, and cross-device synchronization. The content provides a technical overview of different implementation approaches, analyzing their pros and cons, such as tracking the entire $HOME directory.

0 comments
#git #version control #linux
Tracking dotfiles

Comments

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!

Browser Extension

Get instant access to AllDevBlogs from your browser

Top of the Week

1
The Beautiful Web
Jens Oliver Meiert • 2 votes
2
Container queries are rad AF!
Chris Ferdinandi • 2 votes
3
Wagon’s algorithm in Python
John D. Cook • 1 votes
4
An example conversation with Claude Code
Dumm Zeuch • 1 votes
5
Top picks — 2026 January
Paweł Grzybek • 1 votes
6
In Praise of –dry-run
Henrik Warne • 1 votes
7
Deep Learning is Powerful Because It Makes Hard Things Easy - Reflections 10 Years On
Ferenc Huszár • 1 votes
8
Vibe coding your first iOS app
William Denniss • 1 votes