Comment by kstrauser

There's nothing wrong with that setup. It falls over when you start pushing it across multiple machines with substantial differences. Then Chezmoi's templating is so handy. For example, 99% of my config is the same between my desktop Mac and my various Linux servers, but I use different ssh_config settings on the 2 OSes. Chezmoi makes that very easy. Stock git doesn't. I could script something up to do handle that for me automatically, and before I knew about Chezmoi, that's exactly what I did. Now I'd prefer to let someone else write and maintain all that for me so I can move on to working on other things.