Was going to reply the same. I wrote my own bash script to symlink in files to the home directory. You tweak the files and can commit them without having to copy everything over again.
Should look into dotbot, I don’t think it existed when I first started to version control my dot files.
Yup, dotbot is what I use as well. I have shell script that installs a ton of packages I typically use and also kicks off a run of dotbot. It works pretty well on both Mac and Linux and doesn't result in having to do a bunch of work around having my home directory being a repo.
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Was going to reply the same. I wrote my own bash script to symlink in files to the home directory. You tweak the files and can commit them without having to copy everything over again.
Should look into dotbot, I don’t think it existed when I first started to version control my dot files.
I'd say use stow
Yup, dotbot is what I use as well. I have shell script that installs a ton of packages I typically use and also kicks off a run of dotbot. It works pretty well on both Mac and Linux and doesn't result in having to do a bunch of work around having my home directory being a repo.