Sharing your dotfiles between machines
I think it is pretty common to share dotfiles[1] using some sort of version control system and an “always accessible” repository. There’s a lot of people saving and sharing their dotfiles on GitHub, for example.
I don’t like very much the idea of sharing some pieces of my personal configuration for security reasons (or paranoia, depending on who you ask about it). So, my choice is use Dropbox for this task:
I have a private directory called dotfiles with… well… dotfiles, and a shell script which creates symlinks and places them on my home directory (which is useful for first time installations).
[1] On Unix based system, a lot of configuration files are stored on plain text archives beginning with a dot (.bashrc, .profile, .emacs, …).
