I "solved" that problem by having two repositories: dotfiles & dotfiles-private....

		stevekemp on Sept 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles I "solved" that problem by having two repositories: dotfiles & dotfiles-private. The public repository has .bashrc, etc in it. The private repository has ~/.mutt/work-muttrc, etc in it.