Introducing literate dotfiles (2018)

> Because Org mode tangles to another file on disk, I need to make sure tangling the source file does not overwrite changes made to the output file directly. But as long as I keep a good habit of only editing the source file, this is no real issue.

It's a bit of a hack but what I do is commit the tangled output as well. That way I can directly edit the tangled output if I need to and magit will remind me that I've got changes to port to the original source. Or set the file read-only with :tangle-mode[1].

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/tangle_002dmode.html#tangle_002dm...