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What dotfiles manager do you use?
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Thanks - yes I do have that, but I also wanted something specific to my dotfiles to make management and restoration a bit easier.
I have a vorta backup, running on a regular basis for my home dir which has GBs of data.
Mounting and restoring files is literally a matter of seconds.
But if you want something that you can easily take with you, you can go with a symlink/git approach:
Once you need them somewhere else, it's just a
git pullaway... easy as that.What I dislike about existing solutions, is they come with their own binaries, conventions, and stuff, but basically do almost the same... this is the "raw way" that will hold up on any system, and almost all of them have git.