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Setting up the version control of .dotfiles while the .config is connected to a forked repo

I have been using a ~/.config directory, as a git repo that was forked from https://github.com/benbrastmckie/.config to https://github.com/<myusername>/.config and git cloned. I want to keep its remote repo focused on my Neovim related configuration, so my other local files in .config are git-excluded for now. The list of the excluded files can be viewed with cat ~/.config/.git/info/exclude.

Now, I am trying to set up a ~/.dotfiles. In this case, I am thinking of including the whole .config directory in the .dotfiles, adding the git-excluded files too. I want to do it such that the version control of .dotfiles should function properly without affecting what I have set for the .config.

My concern is the .config is forked and cloned from another repo, so it has .git and .gitingore files. I want to keep the .config synced in .dotfiles as a normal dir (excluding its .git related files). Let's say my .config is like this:

> cd .config
> tree -I ".git" -a
.
├── file1
│   └── .script1
├── .gitignore
└── .script0

1 directory, 3 files

Now if I add another file or dir in it, I want to make the changes synced in my .dotfiles as well.

Different kinds of methods are available to configure the version control of .dotfiles.. But I am confused about what to follow in this situation.

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