stored in a bare git repository (
link
)
NB: You will be used to typing git all the time but the below alias sets config to now replace git when interacting with this bare repo (you'll only do this in your root directory).
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
echo ".dotfiles" >> .gitignore
git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.dotfiles
config checkout
# probably want to
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
if there are errors due to existing files
mkdir -p .config-backup && \
config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}