I found Andrew Burgess's method approachable and ended up cribbing from his dotfiles concept [1] and making my own repository [2]. His method uses bash instead of make to create the symlinks defined in the links.prop file in each subdir of the repo.

I typically checkout the dotfiles repo to a personal project folder on every new OS build and then run the installer to get all my configs in place.

- [1] https://shaky.sh/simple-dotfiles/ - [2] https://gitlab.com/jgonyea/dotfiles