[pjz]

I've been doing this for a few years now and definitely agree! I use .home.git as my .git-aside name and also named the access alias 'homegit'.

I didn't know about `git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no` so I just put '/*' into .home.git/info/exclude, and then of course tracked that in itself by adding '!/.home.git/info/exclude' in there too.

It's been amazingly useful when acquiring a new laptop, or wanting to quickly set up a comfortable environment on remote machines.

Interestingly, I got it from a Stackoverflow answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/27336975/8002) and not the atlassian tutorial you listed.