Make symlinks instead of moving dotfiles

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Consider symlinking the dotfiles (.bashrc , .vimrc ... ) instead of moving them from one place to another, this way if modifications are done on the branch they're automatically updated on HOST.

Reference

• Getting started with dotfiles

Code sample

ln -sv “~/dotfiles/.bash_profile” ~
ln -sv “~/dotfiles/.inputrc” ~
ln -sv “~/dotfiles/.gitconfig” ~

In 🅰️nsible, this will look something like

- name: enable configuration
file: >
  dest=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
  src=/etc/nginx/sites-available/default
  state=link

This symlinks dotfiles from git repo to ~ ($HOME)

Shell commands explained

The above shell commands are explained on explainshell.com