For the longest time I used git to track $HOME (ignoring *) and then just $HOME/.config, and then decided that the easiest and least headache-inducing (for my use case) was to just.... not. Now I rsync $HOME every evening to a NAS (ignoring a couple of "temp" folders i.e. Downloads), and try not to make any big mistakes when updating configs!

However, I think the basic git repo in /etc (ignoring *) is still nice 'n' easy for remote servers and the like where I make much fewer changes but want backups.

(14-09-2020, 08:15 AM)z3bra Wrote: The less configuration files I have, the better I am.

It is quite nice to go through the folders in $HOME and have a big purge of config/cache files.