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I love the atlassian method for dotfiles. I have been using for a few years now and currently stored on my private gitea server. I also create a branch for each variation, linux, macOS, macOS arm, windows. Basically they’re the same but they all have slightly different things I cannot use universally.

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I had different branches for different machines too in the past but it felt very inefficient to me. The configuration was the same for 99% and for the last 1% I had to manually copy stuff back and forth. At the moment, I just try to use tools that allow me to have different configurations for different hostnames or OSs but maybe I should look into one of the fancier dotfile managers…

FWIW, that isn't the "atlassian method" for dotfiles. People have been doing bare repos for a while.

Also, pretty sure they even say at the start of the post they got the original alias from a HN commenter.

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