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One problem that may appear when creating a toolkit with Scoop to be used between computers is the minor configuration differences necessary on different computers. For instance, your home directory may be different on a work computer vs your personal computer. A simple solution is to create template files with placeholders that can be replaced with proper values after cloning the Scoop persist directory. Making template files For any configuration file in your persist directory that will need to be different on different computers, create a duplicate of that file with the suffix .template. The original file should be added to the .gitignore file, and the .template file should be added to source control instead. ...

Scoop provides a wonderful foundation for creating a portable developer’s toolkit on Windows systems. What is Scoop? Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows. It is created from Powershell scripts, so it installs easily with few dependencies on Windows-powered systems. The premier benefit of Scoop over other Windows installers (e.g., Chocolaty, Winget, etc.) is that it installs everything to a single directory under the user profile. Scoop stores configuration data that should persist between software updates in a persistent data directory. This directory is an excellent candidate to store in a private repository somewhere. ...