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Discussion on: How do you take your .dotfiles with you?

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drmikecrowe

Private is fine (and I use that too), but I use that just for sensitive info. Part of what I liked about dotphiles is it is community maintained, and I can pull in upstream changes when needed.

For a while, I had a custom .bashrc. However, as ubuntu versions changed, that file changed as well and my universal file no longer set some defaults that ubuntu needed. Now, after installing my stuff, I just append the following to .bashrc:

source ~/.dotfiles/bash_it/bash-it.sh