Version Control Friendly Config

[PMaynard]

I store my configs in git. 'profanity/.local/share/profanity/accounts' adds last.activity to this file, which I don't want to sync between machines and don't care about as its nothing really related to my account configuration.

Is there a better place for this, like /tmp ?

[kennyballou]

This probably isn't a solution, but you may want to look into smudge and clean Git filters. These would essentially trick Git into thinking the file was never changed in the first place.

Add something like the follow to your dotfiles .git/config:

[filter "remove-last-activity"]
    clean = "sed -e '/last/d'"

Add the following line to your dotfiles .gitattributes file:

profanity/.local/share/profanity/accounts filter=remote-last-activity

Again, this probably isn't a solution, but may be enough of a bandaid for now.

[PMaynard]

Thank you, a nice solution.

[jubalh]

The config file is profrc. There you configure your behaviour for profanity.
The accounts file contains other specific things like resource and last.activity and presence.last. The file is not really meant to be shared.