On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 02:33:03PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> I have symlinks to all my files. I also have special hooks that I run per
> os and per host to pull in different configs when needed. Though in
> recent years I've not needed it much. I used to do a lot for work like
> this, but these days work envs are close to my home env, so there is little
> point.

I have a bunch of work-specific aliases which get picked up via:

if [ -f $HOME/.bashrc.local ] ; then
   . $HOME/.bashrc.local
fi

I don't keep .bashrc.local under git control, since some of the paths
in those aliases might be considered Work-confidential, so I don't
want to push them out to a personal git repo.

> I've been doing this since RCS days across 5 different SCMs... git makes
> oopses so rare that the paranoia below seems overkill. Though for other
> SCMs it would likely not be paranoid enough.

The backup directory isn't for paranoia, actually.  It's so the first
time that I install my custom dotfiles on a particular machine, if
there is a prexisting dot-file, say, .profile, I copy it to the backup
directory before replacing it with a symlink to the dotfiles repo.

There might be some magic environment variables or PATH setup that is
unique to that particular system's default dot files, so I can take a
quick look at them and see if I might need to extend my generic dot
files, or maybe add something to the ~/.bashrc.local file, or some
such.

                                        - Ted