[21eleven]

I have my home directory as a git repo: works great, simple, no symlinking

[rolobio]

I have this as well. Easy to push and pull changes. I push to a private git server.

I keep a second copy repo on a thumb drive so I can start my home directory on an offline computer.

[samuell]

Interesting. But I guess there must be files that you don't check in because of size?

[blueflow]

You can .gitignore everything. I used to have my homedir as git repo, but abadoned that because it interfered with other git repos inside my home. Nowadays i have ~/.config as git root, with some symlinks supporting the programs that don't look there on their own.