From this HN comment from 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754

I use:

    git init --bare $HOME/.myconf

    alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME'

    config config status.showUntrackedFiles no

where my ~/.myconf directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal

commands like:

    config status

    config add .vimrc

    config commit -m "Add vimrc"

    config add .config/redshift.conf

    config commit -m "Add redshift config"

    config push

And so one…

No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation.