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A maintainable dotfiles repo: stow vs chezmoi vs a custom bash bootstrap — pros and cons after a year on each

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Every developer eventually accepts that their dotfiles are a real piece of personal infrastructure. The shell config, the editor config, the git config, the tmux conf, the ssh config — these accumulate years of small decisions, and re-configuring them on …