Happy user of chezmoi, I even inject dotfiles in containers with something like: chezmoi archive | docker exec xxx tar xf -.
I sometimes encounter difficulties with old software (e.g. older git) rejecting recent options I include in my dotfiles. I solved it with an after script deleting unwanted options. Not sure to remember why I didn’t want templates for that.
I use Stow for dotfile management. Saves from having the entire root under Git. Dotfiles live in ~/dotfiles/$TOOL and then I can just stow $TOOL to link from my home directory. Really helps with tools that make a complicated dot directory structure for their config and support files.
I’m in my tenth year of managing dotfiles in a git repo. I used fresh for a number of those, and dotbot for a number more. I’ve explored many alternatives along the way including chezmoi and ansible.
This past year I adopted nixos and home-manager. I’ve long strived for cross platform compatibility in my setup, but no longer. I’ve been slowly making my dotfiles fully dependent on a working nix install. I still symlink some configs directly to my dotfiles repo, as I can’t be bothered with rebuilding into the RO nix store for everything.
More utilities: https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/
I wrote https://chezmoi.io/, which is now the most popular dotfile manager. Happy to answer any questions about it.
Happy user of chezmoi, I even inject dotfiles in containers with something like:
chezmoi archive | docker exec xxx tar xf -.I sometimes encounter difficulties with old software (e.g. older git) rejecting recent options I include in my dotfiles. I solved it with an after script deleting unwanted options. Not sure to remember why I didn’t want templates for that.
Happy to hear you’re happy!
Injecting dotfiles into containers with chemzoi is tracked in this issue: https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/issues/1410
Spolier alert: this is planned for chezmoi v3 ;)
Excellent, thank you!
I use Stow for dotfile management. Saves from having the entire root under Git. Dotfiles live in
~/dotfiles/$TOOLand then I can juststow $TOOLto link from my home directory. Really helps with tools that make a complicated dot directory structure for their config and support files.I’m in my tenth year of managing dotfiles in a git repo. I used fresh for a number of those, and dotbot for a number more. I’ve explored many alternatives along the way including chezmoi and ansible.
This past year I adopted nixos and home-manager. I’ve long strived for cross platform compatibility in my setup, but no longer. I’ve been slowly making my dotfiles fully dependent on a working nix install. I still symlink some configs directly to my dotfiles repo, as I can’t be bothered with rebuilding into the RO nix store for everything.
I use a method mentioned by @jmk, https://lobste.rs/s/ocmbaq/how_store_your_dotfiles_using_git#c_zo9hhc, namely a git repo in your home directory which by default ignores all files.
I do the unusual thing of managing my dotfiles with saltstack.