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Chezmoi dotfiles

Manage dotfiles cross platform with chezmoi.

To get started, see the install and quick start

Get a full list of command with chezmoi help

Manage dotfiles with chezmoi

1. Track a dotfile

   chezmoi add ~/.fileName

2. Edit a dotfiles

   chezmoi edit ~/.fileName The edit does not take effect yet.

If you edit the file without chezmoi edit, you can still add it with either:

chezmoi add $file or chezmoi re-add or chezmoi merge $file

1. See difference

   chezmoi diff

2. Apply the changes

   chezmoi -v apply

3. Commit the changes

   chezmoi cd git add . git commit -m “my commit” git push exit

The exit at the end is used because chezmoi cd open a new shell.

The files are in: /home/user/.local/share/chezmoi

Using chezmoi on multiple machine

On any machine where chezmoi is installed and init, you can pull and apply the latest changes from your repo with:

chezmoi update -v

Init on a new machine

full installation

Once installed, you can set up a new machine with one line:

chezmoi init –apply $GITHUB_USERNAME

Note: if your repo is not named dotfiles, use the full repo link

or you can use this version if there is element you want to change before applying the dotefiles to a new machine:

1. Initialise it with you dotfiles repo

   chezmoi init https://github.com/$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git

2. Check the changes that would be made

   chezmoi diff

3. Change the files if you’r not happy with the changes

   chezmoi edit $FILE

or merge the file:

chezmoi merge $FILE

1. Apply the change

   chezmoi apply -v

2. After that you can keep updating from a machine to another with

   chezmoi update -v