Comment by vicaya

The original git approach is still the best, which I've been using for years:

  # source this to clone the .files repo and setup the command

  #git clone --bare https://<user>@bitbucket.org/<user>/dotfiles $HOME/.files
  alias .f='git --git-dir=$HOME/.files --work-tree=$HOME'
  .f config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
  .f config --local remote.origin.fetch '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'
  #.f config --local user.name '<User Name>'
  #.f config --local user.email '<user@emaildomain>'
  .f branch -a

I maintain a branch for each os/distribution (macOS, Ubuntu, CentOS etc.)