Comment by lloeki | Hacker News Reader

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> “origin” is also just the default name for the cloned remote

I don't have a central dotfiles repo anymore (that I would always to forget to push to); I have SSH access to my devices - via tailscale - anyway so I'm doing

    git remote add $hostname $hostname:.config

and can cd ~/.config && git fetch/pull/rebase $hostname anytime from anywhere.

I've been considering a bare repo + setting $GITDIR (e.g via direnv) but somehow the dead simple simplicity has trumped the lack of push ability

What's the benefit of this compared to rsync or scp $hostname:.config/<TAB>?

I put my whole home folder in git and that has its benefits (being able to see changes to files as they happen) but if I'm just copying a file or two of config I'll just cat or scp it--introducing git seems needlessly complex if the branches are divergent

> just a file or two

I don't have to remember which to copy

> rsync or scp

I don't have to remember which is most recent, nir even assume that "most recent" is a thing (i.e nonlinear)

It's all just:

- a git fetch --all away to get

- a git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all to find out who's where and when

- diff and whatchanged for contents if needed

- a cherry-pick / rebase away to get what I want, complete with automatic conflict resolution

I can also have local experiments in local topic branches, things I want to try out but not necessarily commit to across all of my machines yet.

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