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I just do this. Easy

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Same! Nothing better than git to store a bunch of text files!

How do you handle differences between machines? How do you handle secrets? How do you run scripts?

Scripts check environment to see where they are.

What secrets? I generally don’t copy them, but you could manually. For example I use the same ssh keypair on two machines, but I generally don’t.

In my case, I have things like Github Personal Access Tokens stored in my password manager and then use chezmoi's templates to populate them in my dotfiles, for example:

https://github.com/twpayne/dotfiles/blob/master/home/dot_zsh...

This means that: 1. My secrets are safely stored in my password manager so I can share my dotfiles. 2. When I update the secret in my password manager it automatically gets updated in my dotfiles when I run `chezmoi apply`.

Hmm, I don’t keep any secrets in dot files and have never thought to. Seems simpler that way.

To clarify, .ssh/* are “dot files” and have a private key but I dont track them in the repo.

I have one machine at any time

I store them in Bitwarden not in dotfiles

I… am not sure what that has to do with scripts?

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