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What do you think are the good features a bash prompt should have?
3 projects | /r/bash | 6 Jul 2023

And because it's very instructive, I hand-rolled all the rest as well, resulting in this (set via PROMPT_COMMAND).
A Way to Manage Dotfiles
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2021

and so on, for each config file. My general dotfiles repo is public here, if you want to take a look how I did it for the tools I use: https://github.com/bewuethr/dotfiles
This still isn't ideal. For example, I use Git submodules for Vim plugins in the shared repo – but maybe I don't need all of that on my Raspberry pi. I feel like at some point, a config file based solution could be better; or using a tool such as https://yadm.io/, which is using bare repos under the hood.