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I just do this. Easy https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

• ok_dad 2y ago
  Same! Nothing better than git to store a bunch of text files!
  • twp 2y ago
    How do you handle differences between machines? How do you handle secrets? How do you run scripts?
    • mixmastamyk 2y ago
      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.
      • twp 2y ago
        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_zshrc.tmpl#L103 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`.
        • mixmastamyk 2y ago
          Hmm, I don’t keep any secrets in dot files and have never thought to. Seems simpler that way.
          • mixmastamyk 2y ago
            To clarify, .ssh/* are “dot files” and have a private key but I dont track them in the repo.
    • ok_dad 2y ago
      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?