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ajanuary
on Aug 3, 2012
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Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles
How does any of those advantages apply only to dotfiles and not just plain files?
FuzzyDunlop
on Aug 4, 2012
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I think there's an aspect of convenience, too. Personally, I prefer that to, say, configuration stored in some unspecified location in ~/Library/Application Support/Application/* (on OS X).
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