If you do a lot of open-source/personal software projects spanning multiple repos, you’ll find a fair amount of tooling drift across projects. Keeping up all this tooling was taking up a decent amount of my time, so I decided to look into creating a personal monorepo as a way to simplify tooling by sharing a single git repo.

I accidentally started a flame war in the Lynx mailing list by mentioning that it would be nice to have a public source code repository (I mentioned using Git). Some highly opinionated characters on the list started howling that Git is terrible, version control system n is absolutely the best there is, etc. As fun as that bike-shedding is, almost everyone missed the point of the original post - I just wanted easier access to the development source code.

When I find a neat new trick to put into my Vim settings file, it’s a pain to have to install it across my various machines. It’s especially a pain when I reinstall a machine. The solution came to me - use Git to version control and distribute my settings.