A super simple way to manage dotfiles

Some type back I encountered a super simple dotfiles setup where you simply check you home directory into Git. Putting * in .gitignore prevents files from being added by default, so you need to add files with the -f (force) option. But after that, it is super simple to manage your dotfiles as you can just use Git operations. No stow, shell scripts, etc needed.

See:

https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/30/dotfiles.html

This is the first dotfiles manager program that really sparked my interest:

https://www.chezmoi.io/

It has features such as managing secrets, templates for different machines, etc.

On the subject of dotfiles, still need to try nix