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Asked: 2026-06-09T05:37:20+00:00

When setting up a dotfiles repo for several different platforms (eg. OS X, linux

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When setting up a dotfiles repo for several different platforms (eg. OS X, linux and Cygwin) would it be best to create branches for each machine type, or to use separate projects?

Many of the files will be the same, but some will have minor differences.

I tried creating branches off of my master, but pushing to the remote repo led to things like:

Your branch and 'master' have diverged,
and have 4 and 1 different commit(s) each, respectively.

I don’t understand why my “Cygwin” branch is reporting its out of sync with master. It’s a branch — it’s supposed to be different that the master.

Any suggestions of the best practice to accomplish my goal.

Thank You.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The diverged message means that you have a tracked branch. You could disable tracking, see here how.

    However, I don’t think that the way you are using branches for multiplatform builds is correct. Better if you will have platform-dependent stuff separated by the code, e.g. by using conditional #includes, #defines or build scripts.

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