I recently switched from using using plain Git to yadm for managing my dotfiles.
It is similar to using Git, just type yadm instead.
To get started, just yadm init, yadm add/commit/push, etc.
To populate a new computer with your dotfiles: yadm clone <your dotfiles repo>.
What is the difference between yadm and git? It seems the basic difference is yadm gives you an easy way to overlay a repo in an existing directory.
This has a few advantages over my previous method:
- much easier to add dotfiles to an existing machine
- automatically ignores unknown files and does not give you fussy error messages when trying to add new files, etc.
Overall, seems like a nice improvement!