[globular-toast]

I do the git branch thing with GNU stow and it absolutely sucks, but it's the only thing that sucks. This seems to solve different problems that I don't have but not the one that I do. I've been meaning to try chezmoi specifically because managing machine-specific branches sucks.

[amar1729]

I switched over to chezmoi a few years ago - previously had been managing a "main" (macOS) and "Ubuntu" branch for dots. turned out to be a huge pain especially once I ran into work-specific config, or wanted to try other Linux flavors. figuring out the templating and ignore rules to [merge everything](https://github.com/Amar1729/dotfiles/commit/00177e45b09bba80...) took about a weekend's effort but it was so worth it

[retrodaredevil]

I have a Makefile that runs certain stow commands depending on the hostname of whatever machine I'm on. I keep machine specific files in their own directory, and I also have a shared directory for shared dotfiles. It works well for my needs.

[sureglymop]

Chezmoi seems to "do it all" but it also seems overly large and relatively complex. I'm just a bit afraid I'll have to read through the documentation over and over again, especially if it's been a while.