I build developer tools and services at Microsoft (currently Codespaces, Live Share, IntelliCode) and maintain some OSS projects (CodeTour, GistPad, CodeSwing, WikiLens)
It definitely seems like many of the “dot file managers” are simply working around the fact that folks don’t want to make their home directory a Git repo. Have you run into any downsides with this solution? It certainly seems really simple.
Not any huge ones, but there are definitely some interesting side effects.
One if that I am always in a git repo now basically, so my bash indicator of if I'm in a git branch is slightly less meaningful
Two some tools (ex: ripgrep) use your .gitignore file as a generic ignore file when searching, so this needs to be worked around. I accomplish this my using something like rg --no-ignore --glob "!.git/*". I find I don't actually run into this too often, as usually I am running rg from within a different project directory, where it's local .gitignore is used so this isn't an issue.
Besides that everything works as expected! I've been doing it for a few years now and really enjoy the setup!
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It definitely seems like many of the “dot file managers” are simply working around the fact that folks don’t want to make their home directory a Git repo. Have you run into any downsides with this solution? It certainly seems really simple.
Not any huge ones, but there are definitely some interesting side effects.
One if that I am always in a
gitrepo now basically, so my bash indicator of if I'm in agitbranch is slightly less meaningfulTwo some tools (ex:
ripgrep) use your.gitignorefile as a generic ignore file when searching, so this needs to be worked around. I accomplish this my using something likerg --no-ignore --glob "!.git/*". I find I don't actually run into this too often, as usually I am runningrgfrom within a different project directory, where it's local.gitignoreis used so this isn't an issue.Besides that everything works as expected! I've been doing it for a few years now and really enjoy the setup!