dansalias

Rather than attempting to mimick production environments and APIs locally, I've had much more success simply building in-memory versions of platform services.

(OP) appreciate all the feedback. I tried stow and chezmoi, neither felt right to me. Evidently that puts me in a small minority!

On the off chance there's anyone else who sees this as worth exploring here's a <1min demo video - https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1f9u1xk/oc_better...

Might be niche but for me - I have config files outside $HOME, I use a number of `.gitignore`-aware tools (tree, fuzzy finder), and I just don't like `git status` telling me I'm in a repo in any subdir of $HOME.

Ha forgive me, yes, British schooling, I put at least a full minute's deliberation into my first word for this very reason! Evidently chose wrong.

The JSON hiccup occured to me - I don't have any JSON dotfiles but I guess I'd store it as hjson (https://hjson.github.io/) and add a conversion step.

Symlinking a directory - admittedly didn't come up for my dotfiles, maybe `.ln` files with a similar format in dir roots.

Commands - yes, I still keep a set of shell scripts alongside my config files.

Appreciate it! Agreed, they are ultimately a financial services company, so not being able to get hold of someone seems ridiculous.