[sandreas]

I use a git repository `dotfiles` containing several configs in `dotfiles/etc/`.

Since I use `zsh`, I usually only symlink the `dotfiles/etc/zsh/.zshrc` to `$HOME/.zshrc`, while the `.zshrc` loads environment variables settings all required paths for my tools, e.g.:

  export PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/dotfiles/scripts:$PATH"
  export STARSHIP_CONFIG="$HOME/dotfiles/etc/starship/starship.toml"
  export GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL="$HOME/dotfiles/etc/git/.gitconfig"
  export MYVIMRC="$HOME/dotfiles/etc/vim/vimrc"
  export VIMINIT='source $MYVIMRC'
  # ...

The only files of `dotfiles` I copy over are for ssh, because ssh checks file permissions for security reasons and does not allow symlinks.