Managing dotfiles Chezmoi

I had been trying to find a good way to manage my dotfiles for years. I tried having my $HOME be a git working directory. That worked well, but not really for keeping multiple systems in sync. I looked at stow but I didn’t reall like the way it worked. Then I found chezmoi. And it’s perfect!

The Basics

Chezmoi, stores its configuration in the source directory. On Linux/BSD, the default location is ~/.local/share/chezmoi. To get started, you’d run: