Hi spiralofhope,

spiralofhope writes:

> [...]
> It got horrifying when I kept installing, trying, and uninstalling
> software.. most of which left behind dotfiles and dotdirs that may or
> may not remind me of the name of some program. (I hated wondering if
> some object was necessary or just clutter)
>
> After several dozen dotfiles appeared, I learned to identify and
> migrate items I cared about and reference each with a symlink.
>
> Then after blowing away a distribution and installing something new, I
> would rebuild the symlinks pointing to that other partition/drive. The
> programs would have a version similar enough to cope with re-using the
> dotfiles. This was essential in my experiments with many, many programs
> and distributions.

You may be interested in `vcsh` which tries to avoid the need for a farm
of symlinks and add git-based version control to the configuration files
you really care about.

Hope this helps
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