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Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share
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I use YADM to manage my dotfiles. I like and recommend it.
I don’t share them, though.
I work in a security-related position. My dotfiles expose more about tools I use, how I have them configured and if those configurations are secure.
I still like sharing and if there’s some snippet I think is particularly useful, I may share directly or post it somewhere. But I don’t share them all by default.
Pretty much how I feel about it too. It's not like I invented anything here, I mostly copied it from others or the docs. I will share snippets with people if it helps them but I'm not publishing everything either. Might need to look into yadm at some point.
YADM is essentially git so about the only thing you need to remember is to use
yadminstead of git when managing your dotfiles.