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(OP) appreciate all the feedback. I tried stow and chezmoi, neither felt right to me. Evidently that puts me in a small minority!

On the off chance there's anyone else who sees this as worth exploring here's a <1min demo video - https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1f9u1xk/oc_better...


Some responders here almost seem offended you wouldn't use chezmoi. Kind of strange. I couldn't care less about someone using chezmoi/tool x - big deal - but I'm always interested to read how people approach automation of their workflows, the tradeoffs, any cool tricks they employed that I might not have heard of before. Are engineers discouraged from problem solving now? It's not like youre doing this on company time; you are allowed to do things for fun/interest's sake..


Might be niche but for me - I have config files outside $HOME, I use a number of `.gitignore`-aware tools (tree, fuzzy finder), and I just don't like `git status` telling me I'm in a repo in any subdir of $HOME.


That's why I use --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles

I rename .git directory to .dotfiles in my $HOME


Ha forgive me, yes, British schooling, I put at least a full minute's deliberation into my first word for this very reason! Evidently chose wrong.


I'm a Texan and I use "whilst". So I'm confused.

Then again, I can't stand using the word "learnt" instead of "learned". It just sounds wrong. But it doesn't make me stop reading someone's blog.


The JSON hiccup occured to me - I don't have any JSON dotfiles but I guess I'd store it as hjson (https://hjson.github.io/) and add a conversion step.

Symlinking a directory - admittedly didn't come up for my dotfiles, maybe `.ln` files with a similar format in dir roots.

Commands - yes, I still keep a set of shell scripts alongside my config files.


Huh. Seems like an interesting alternative to JSONC.


Appreciate it! Agreed, they are ultimately a financial services company, so not being able to get hold of someone seems ridiculous.


100%. If we are going to have these types of companies with these types of valuations, then they need to inherit all of the responsibilities of the class of companies they seek to "disrupt" :)


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