Two passes, both aimed at a consistent experience rather than a faithful
snapshot of each machine's accidents.
Standardisation. Audited every host-layer config present on more than one
machine and asked whether the difference was intent or drift:
- mpv was byte-identical; swayimg differed only because system76 still
had the shipped default and the work laptop had the real config; bob
differed by one setting the work laptop was simply missing.
- user-dirs.dirs disagreed with BOTH machines and with zshenv, which has
said $HOME/downloads all along. Standardised on that.
- mimeapps.list is now the union of both machines' associations.
- swaync's config and style are shared; only wallust's generated
colors.css stays per host, alongside hypr's and waybar's.
All of the above moved to common/.
Dropped as pure state rather than config: gtk-2.0 (file-chooser geometry),
pavucontrol.ini (window size), zoom.conf (a per-install random_key) and
zoomus.conf (panel widths). gtk-3.0 stays per host — its bookmarks encode
the two different home directories.
App config. GIMP, inkscape, FreeCAD, cura, OrcaSlicer, LightBurn and OBS
all hold real settings, so a curated subset of each is now tracked:
settings, keybindings and user content, but not session state, tool
options, device lists or window geometry. kicad is skipped — both library
tables hold a single entry, i.e. untouched defaults.
Content lives once in common/ even when only one machine has the app; the
host configs decide who gets the link. That is the distinction that lets
53% of link sources be shared while the NAS still does not get GIMP.
Two exclusions on credential grounds: obs-studio/plugin_config holds a
websocket server_password, and gh is dropped entirely because `gh auth
login` writes a token into hosts.yml — now also blocked by name.
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# Allowlist. Everything is ignored unless explicitly named below.
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# This is deliberate: the previous repo used a two-line denylist and
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# accumulated browser caches, mail caches and vendored binaries.
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**/*
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!.gitignore
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!install
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!README.md
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!meta/
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!meta/**
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!common/
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!common/**
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!hosts/
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!hosts/**
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!packages/
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!packages/**
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# dotbot submodule
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!.gitmodules
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!dotbot
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# Re-exclude noise inside the allowed trees.
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**/__pycache__/
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**/*.pyc
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*.pre-*
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*.backup
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**/hcache/
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**/node_modules/
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# Never, under any circumstances. These are shapes that have actually held
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# live credentials on these machines: Claude OAuth tokens, restic repo keys,
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# subsonic passwords, the Proton bridge and LiteLLM virtual keys.
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**/credentials
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**/credentials/**
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**/.credentials.json
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**/password
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**/hosts.yml
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**/*.env
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