Show HN: A way to manage dotfiles without silly symlinks and special tools (opens in new tab)

erm, firstly, by silly symlinks I meant in the context of managing dotfiles. A lot of exiting tools do that and IMHO, it is silly. Of course in yours it might make perfect sense. Secondly, erm -- git submodules are nasty and dangerous ? ...for managing vim files ? How am I to use pathogen (or all the hipsters to use oh-my-<whatever>)). I didn't say this is what you use on your production servers. This is how I manage my dotfiles on my personal boxes and find it easier to use than any specific purpose tool.

Any specific reason why $HOME is not good for a git repo in this specific case ? AFAICT, the repo is tracking only what is mentioned in the .gitignore.

As for symlinks, heh, yes I do know they are not silly and actually extremely useful and yes I know how to use them. I simply think they are silly for managing dotfiles. If your intent is to version your dotfiles and have different 'profiles' across your systems, using the tools at hand -- well, in theory you can write a bunch of script to create the symlinks and 'manage' them as well -- but I just find /that/ silly.