How do you manage your dotfiles?
I'm wondering if there is a new tool out there that I'm missing out on.
I'm wondering if there is a new tool out there that I'm missing out on.
https://www.chezmoi.io/ if you've got some complexity with your setup. otherwise, could be overkill.
Had a homebrew Git setup for ages and recently started using Chezmoi. It's only been a few weeks, but so far it's been pretty great!
What I really like about chezmoi is how it can retrieve secrets stored on Bitwarden. Your git history is clean of secrets but you can have them referenced on your dotfiles.
it's so useful! I used to have some terrible setup going with branches for different OSes in my dotfiles, and chezmoi really simplified the whole thing
Indeed, I use my dotfiles across several machines, architectures, and distributions and it's fantastic
I use Chezmoi but I have to point out some of its downfalls vs. other dotfile managers, particularly if someone is looking to migrate to it.
chezmoi remove ...
. You can't just rm
them from your dotfiles directory, because chezmoi does not sync state; it simply applies what's currently in your repo.Despite these gripes I still use it because deployment via a single binary is convenient, and there's enough control through the generated config file + system info to handle multiple kinds of deployments sort-of-sensibly (see point 4 above).