Your ~/.claude folder quietly accumulates two very different things: configuration you'd hate to lose, and private data you must never publish. Here's how to put the first under git without ever committing the second.
I've started using chezmoi to manage my dotfiles: shell config, Git config, editor settings, aliases, and all those small files that make a machine feel like mine.
The basic idea is simple:
chezmoi source repo ↔ my real $HOME files
But the direction matters.
Your .zshrc started as ten tidy lines and has quietly become a 400-line dumping ground of half-remembered aliases, dead exports, and copy-pasted snippets you're afraid to delete. Here's how to clean it up and keep it that way.