[andrewla]

Especially given the fact that things are moving (too slowly) towards the XDG specification, my dotfiles repo is just my ~/.config directory, with a policy of basically ignoring everything except those things that I want to track.

So my .gitignore looks like

     /*
     !.gitignore
     !/dotfiles
     !/install_dotfiles.sh
     !/i3
     !/git
     ...

I then have a directory under .config, .config/dotfiles, where I have all of my unfixable dotfiles without the leading ., so to install them I have a script that just does `ln -snf ./$x ~/.$x` instead of messing with sed scripts.

This is both self-contained and allows me to manage both XDG-style config and traditional dotfiles.

[setopt]

I do exactly the same: I have a Git repo that is cloned into ~/.config and that covers most of the terminal apps that I use.

For the holdouts that don’t yet support that config directory, I have a short Makefile that sets up the required symlinks. So running “make” makes the links I’ll most likely need on a new server, while e.g. “make ssh” makes only the links required for that specific program.

Now that tmux supports ~/.config, and vim just added support as well, that Makefile is shrinking.