[loloquwowndueo]

I use chezmoi, and I didn’t have to write a 50-line script - just install chezmoi on a new machine, run a command pointing it to a git repo, and up pop all the dot files and configs I need to have a consistent environment everywhere.

Chezmoi also handles variations in config files for personal vs. Work machines, or even differences between machines themselves.

I agree it’s not a tremendous lift to write a bespoke solution for this (and I did so in the past) but at some point it becomes lower-effort to use something off the shelf.

[msdz]

In addition to that, chezmoi templating can be used to fill in environment variables like secret keys, you just need to unlock rbw or whatever other password manager it is that you use. I have some that I export in my shell config, and this setup allows me to have the repo in a public place and not worry about who finds it.