I put my whole home folder in git and that has its benefits (being able to see changes to files as they happen) but if I'm just copying a file or two of config I'll just cat or scp it--introducing git seems needlessly complex if the branches are divergent
I don't have to remember which to copy
> rsync or scp
I don't have to remember which is most recent, nir even assume that "most recent" is a thing (i.e nonlinear)
It's all just:
- a git fetch --all away to get
- a git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all to find out who's where and when
- diff and whatchanged for contents if needed
- a cherry-pick / rebase away to get what I want, complete with automatic conflict resolution
I can also have local experiments in local topic branches, things I want to try out but not necessarily commit to across all of my machines yet.