Dotfiles with Git

Having a backup version of config file is a nice thing to have when you screw something up. It allows you to experiment with adding new stuff to the file without ending a day with not working tool. You’ve probably seen people sharing their dotfiles on Github accounts or r/unixporn at Reddit using git repos. At least I’ve seen. So my first trial of backuping my config files was very trivial (but it did the job!). I just cpied i3wm config to created directory, initiated a new git repository and pushed that to the remote repo on Github. And you might think that’s not bad! ...

October 27, 2020