Post #1727910

2026-04-25 21:52 UTC

@odoben That seems to be the general consensus :blobfoxthinkgoogly: Although looking at my .zshrc there's a lot more platform-specific stuff in there than I thought.

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@CrinkleSix@cubhub.social 2026-04-25 22:20

@Rusty @odoben Yeah I had some ancient git-based dotfiles framework that's probably similar to the other one that was linked but also completely different, because that's just how those things go >.< Anyway after the initial push to mostly-set up a new machine, I never actually maintain it or sync anything beyond that and they gradually drift apart. But I did at least make a half-hearted effort to have the end of my .zshrc reference a ".local.zsh" that has the, well, local stuff, that's not committed to the repo.

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@okapi@fosstodon.org 2026-04-26 05:57

@Rusty @odoben I use git branches and merges to separate dot files for separate platforms. Start with a common empty parent commit so merges work. Then I have branches for each tool - base/zsh, base/vim etc. Then for platforms, branches like mix/work/laptop, mix/home etc. If something is specific to a platform, I commit it there. Otherwise it goes on the base branch and is merged in. Have done this for quite some years and it works well.

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