Chezmoi Alternatives

chezmoi reviews and mentions

• Chezmoi adds policy on LLM-generated content to contributor guide
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2024
• Securely manage your dot files
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2024
• Ask HN: Did macOS Sonoma break your iCloud setup?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2024

  > A warning, not an admonishment: Use Apple services in a novel or unsupported manner and you're asking for trouble.

  +1

  I've always had sync issues with iCloud Drive when storing developer projects and related things there. It ends up stuck or confused or conflicted but tries to resolve the merge conflicts opaquely and it's hard to know there's a problem in real time vs until later when you find something broken. I keep all dev things out of iCloud after getting burned by this enough times over the years.

  To OP: Consider a repo dotfiles setup like using Chezmoi or similar. Transitioning to it was less friction than I expected and the only downside really is having to remember to commit changes across devices.

  https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi

• Russ Cox: Go Testing by Example
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

  chezmoi (<https://chezmoi.io> or <https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi>) has a couple dozen txtar tests. They are both amazing and completely frustrating to use, but I don't think that there would be a better way to test most of what chezmoi does without them.

  Tom Payne (the creator and primary developer of chezmoi) has added some extra commands to the txtar context which makes things easier for certain classes of testing.

• Fake recruiter Lazarus lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023

  Thanks, I never heard of it before and it looks really interesting.

  However, it seems that it does not cover all of my needs: https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/discussions/1510#discussi...

• Sharing neovim settup
  5 projects | /r/neovim | 22 Sep 2023

  once i need a more complex solution (eg. for machine specific stuff), i'll probably switch to chezmoi which has more features and native windows support

• I want to mess around with my config files. What is the best way for me to be able to go back and forth between my normal config and my test config?
  1 project | /r/neovim | 19 May 2023

  I’ve been using chezmoi, which uses git, to manage my dot files and have different branches for these types of experiments.

• Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2023

  https://chezmoi.io is a dotfile manager that is runs on multiple OSes (including Windows) while handling differences from machine to machine, allows you to store your secrets in your password manager (so you don't have to store secrets in your dotfile repo), and it even supports the NO_COLOR environment variable. Check it out! Disclaimer: I'm the author.

  There's a comprehensive list of the most popular dotfile managers at https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/.

• Chezmoi: ignore files and subdirectories
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 22 Feb 2023

  /autoload/ **/autoload//* /plugged/ **/plugged//* */yankring_history.txt ``` Discussion

• What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?
  33 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Feb 2023

  chezmoi

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