<div dir="ltr">And as a final follow up to this, GNU Stow[1] is an excellent tool to manage all this, its available on almost any OS you can imagine, and super simple for taking a bunch of config and symlinking it into place.<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/">https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 at 17:28 Sam Livingston-Gray <<a href="mailto:geeksam@gmail.com">geeksam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Another unanticipated bonus of storing one's dotfiles in GitHub: when someone asks you "wait, what did you just do?" you can IM or email them a link so they can swipe your tricks later.<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Also, you can share some of the more amusing bits like so: <a href="https://github.com/geeksam/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/aliases#L26-L34" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://github.com/geeksam/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/aliases#L26-L34</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Ed Saunders <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:saunders.ed@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">saunders.ed@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">It's very useful to keep all of your dot files in an git repo, I have one dedicated to tmux, zsh, vimrc etc - any changes I make I immediately push.</span></blockquote><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></span>Just to highlight the above point from Luke - I've also found it invaluable to commit all my dotfiles and folders (e.g. .vim) to a git repo and pushing it up to github. You can then symlink the actual files in and gain all the advantages of version controlling your environment :)! <div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Very useful for backup purposes and when trying to work out *why* you've got some random line in your .bashrc which doesn't seem to make any sense.<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Cheers,</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Ed</div></div></div><div class="m_-4479513522527603103HOEnZb gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4479513522527603103h5 gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On 10 March 2017 at 08:14, Jesse Waites <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:jesse.waites@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">jesse.waites@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">I'm all set now - I ended up uninstalling rbenv via homebrew, installing rbenv, bundle installing, and now my system works again. Thanks all for your help, I sincerely appreciate it!</div><div class="m_-4479513522527603103m_659406350510265253HOEnZb gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4479513522527603103m_659406350510265253h5 gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Jesse Waites <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:jesse.waites@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">jesse.waites@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Hi all - Thanks so much for the advice. I am in Eastern Standard Time (Boston area) and just finished meeting with my boss (He is very cool about it this thankfully, he kinda laughs and tells me this is why he hardly ever tweaks his dotfiles!)<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Looks like I will be uninstalling and reinstalling rbenv, or moving to RVM.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">In any case, I will take someone up on that Google Hangout now and for the rest of the day if someone is still interested and has the time!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><span class="gmail_msg">On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Nicholas Johnson <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:me@nicholasjohnson.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">me@nicholasjohnson.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">This is why I typically symlink these files into Dropbox. 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