[funkaster]

just the fact that it feels _unnatural_. I'm not saying it's wrong, just that personally I don't feel it's a good thing. I know it's tracking only the things you add to it, but still. I think my problem with it is that it feels messy.

My approach: git repo with a very simple setup script that creates symlinks to the dotfiles/dotdirs. It also manages some sensitive things like gpg/ssh keys.

[tacone]

Yeah, in some way it's something the VCS are lacking right now: being able to add files outside the .git/ parent directory, so you can index a given directory in multiple working trees/repositories.

So you can have a ~/dotfiles working tree that points to ~. And perhaps a ~/mydata working tree that points to ~ as well. Both will index different files as manually added by the user.