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Just use `git` to manage your dotfiles
There are a lot of dotfile managers out there like chezmoi, stow, yadm, and plenty more I’m sure. They each solve the problem of sharing configs in different ways, but they all require some kind of tool to be installed and some commands to be learned.
Aug 31 2025 There are a lot of dotfile managers out there like chezmoi, stow, yadm, and plenty more I’m sure. They each solve the problem of sharing configs in different ways, but they all require some kind of tool to be installed and some commands to be learned. This creates a new repo, sets up a.gitignore to ignore every file, then force-adds the.gitignore into the directory.
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