Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Git Bare Repository - A Better Way To Manage Dotfiles" video.

  1. Death to dotfiles! Not only do they clutter your home directory, they are also visible to other users, who can see what sort of apps you use, which is a privacy breach. Luckily, more and more apps are adopting the XDG Base Directory spec <http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/>, which defines default directories ~/.config/, ~/.local/ and the rest of it to contain these things (and these locations can be overridden by environment variables if you wish). If you are a developer working on an app which needs to create user preference/cache files and the like, and you haven’t already adopted this spec, I urge you to do so!
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