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Ah, that is what OP was referring to.

Well, you can't have different configs for different hosts. Other than that, I can't quickly recall what other limitations are, I see none. I really like the simplicity of the "pure git" approach.

My dotfiles repo dates back to 2018, I'm happy user of this git one-liner for the past 6 years.



> you can't have different configs for different hosts

You can? Git is a DVCS, that's kinda the point of the Distributed part (although most people use it as a centralized VCS.

I have not only host specific configs, but also (host specific) work configs. It's really easy to merge/cherry pick changes between them.


> Well, you can't have different configs for different hosts

Though you can use git branches, but I prefer not to




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