As-salamu alaykum, this was my approach in the past: I was struggling to automate synchronization of my configurations, until I had an idea. I wanted to hard-link my config files putting them is a sub-directory linux in a repo also containing my window's configs.

But it seems easier to just git init in my ~, $HOME, ignore all files, exclude my config files. Unfortunately, there was some problems:

1. When I open my editor neovim, I have a filemanager called NERDTree, the workspace directory is set by default to the directory containing .git, in which we have git inited, in our case it is $HOME.
2. I was using zsh in my terminal, there is a git plugin to show my current status and branch, it will always be there even if your are in Desktop for example.

Just hard-link all config files inside $HOME directory into ./linux, we are done. But I had hard time build scripts to do this linking. See ./linux-hard-link-files.bash, ./linux-linked*.

To target config files, you have to include them in ./linux-linked-files.txt the same way you ignore in .gitignore.

• I don't include .npmrc as it contains my registry _authToken.

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