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How do you manage your dotfiles?
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For those looking to break into the industry, are hustling for their first job, or have just started their career and are looking for advice, check out:
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!
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 justrm
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).
I adore chezmoi