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by alkh 315 days ago
That's something I was a little bit conflicted about for some time. After using a few open source tools(shoutout to syncthing and linkding :)) and I realised that if you want to use something for free, sharing is the least you can do.

My dotfiles are private for now cause I need to clean some commits(I think I might have added some private info before) but I intend to publish them eventually
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gknoy 315 days ago
> My dotfiles are private for now cause I need to clean some commits

I had to do similar. I ended up deleting the git history and just recreating it before pushing. The best thing was to add a dependency on `~/.secrets` or other similar un-tracked file, which is basically just a source-able script that defines things like API keys, private URLs, etc.

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alkh 314 days ago
I thought about recreating the repo from scratch too. I was transfering from Intel to ARM Mac and keep a few tags/commits related to previous configs, so it is hard to just let it go :)
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