dotfiles

Dotfiles

This term refers to all (some will argue that not only) user local hidden files (like your .vimrc).
At some point management of these file becomes cumbersome.
There are a lot of techniques to aid this problem, personally I found one to be particularly good.

References

1. https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-store-dotfiles-git-bare-repo/