document what the dotfiles thing does, or better disable by default about mac-dev-playbook HOT 6 CLOSED

One way to still commit .gitconfig is to move the author data to a .local.gitconfig sourced by adding this to the .gitconfig (since git 1.7, silently ignores unexisting files).

[include]
	# user.email, user.name, user.signingkey go in this file
	path = .local.gitconfig

And then possibly even create the .local.gitconfig file in the playbook: oxyc/mac-playbook@0dac3d3

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I also finally took the step to further analyze whyt happens to me again and again and put it into: geerlingguy/ansible-role-dotfiles#14

Anyway, I think this part of the playbook is very useful, though needs some time to understand and handle properly - while all the package stuff is easy to setup and get started.

So I believe this feature should be optional, and made in a way people can start using it when they find time to properly set it up.

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So sorry about the Git ownership snafu—that was supposed to be fixed a while back by https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook/blob/master/default.config.yml#L13

All the other dotfiles changes in the default geerlingguy/dotfiles repo are much less harmful, and can be easily switched around. The main Git configuration, however, cannot... therefore I'm removing it and will track that work in #15.

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Well that's on e thing.

Still, the dotfile stuff is much harder to get right and understand how to use correctly, and theres not much documentation on how the workflow is and how one does it withput losing data as described in geerlingguy/ansible-role-dotfiles#14.

So IMHO there should be an option to completely turn it off until one knows how to do it and finds the time to figure it out.

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I should at least make it disable-able. Will do that via a new configure_dotfiles variable...

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Fixed via above commit. You can disable the dotfiles management by setting configure_dotfiles: no in your config.yml.

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