I’m wondering if there is a new tool out there that I’m missing out on.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve done symlinks into a separate directory before, but by far my favorite method is to just let ~ be a git repo. It’s maximally simple, no other tooling needed besides git.

    There are a few key steps to making this work well:

    • echo '*' > ~/.gitignore: This way git status isn’t full of untracked files. I can still git add -f what I actually want to track.
    • git branch -m dots: For clarity in my shell prompt.
    • [ -d "$HOME/.local/$(hostname)/bin" ] && PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/$(hostname)/bin and similar if there’s config I want to apply only to certain hosts.
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      1 year ago

      Pretty happy with nixos these days, after the initial (crazy) learning curve. But I really like the creative simplicity of this idea

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        1 year ago

        Stole Forked this idea from Drew Devault.

        I’m looking at NixOS now for my server, and while I understand the host config, I’m curious whether I could integrate this into my config in some way.