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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? by wooptoo on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @07:12AM (#11072200)
Why is this a bare repo as opposed to a normal one?
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? by StreakyCobra on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @08:53AM (#11072675)
Because the working tree is already your home folder, you don't need to also have a copy of these files in ".myconf/".
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? by idle_zealot on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @09:56PM (#11077955)
So why use .myconf/ at all? What is it doing?
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Re:Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? by telotortium on Thursday February 11, 2016 @04:20AM (#11079125)
It contains the files that would normally be in .git (run `git help gitrepository-layout` for more details on the contents).
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