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I made a post recently on HN about this. All you need is git. It does everything. I didn't know why people want symlinks and everything else.

https://ericgreer.info/post/2025-08-31-simple-dotfiles-scrip...





I was using "just git" until I realized I've started writing a whole bunch of scripts of various types to recreate ("ad-hoc, informally specified and bug-ridden...") functionality that chezmoi offers out of the box and has already tested in the field.



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