tldr/pages/common/chezmoi.md

Chezmoi

A multi-machine dotfile manager, written in Go. More information: https://chezmoi.io.

• Initialize chezmoi on your machine:

chezmoi init

• Tell chezmoi to manage a dotfile:

chezmoi add {{path/to/file}}

• Edit the source state of a tracked dotfile:

chezmoi edit {{path/to/file}}

• See changes chezmoi would make:

chezmoi diff

• Apply the changes:

chezmoi -v apply

• Set chezmoi up on another machine by downloading existing dotfiles from a Git repository:

chezmoi init {{https://example.com/path/to/repository.git}}

• Fetch the latest changes from a remote repository:

chezmoi update