Chezmoi concepts

chezmoi misc

  • Version

    chezmoi --version
chezmoi version 1.7.19, commit c4dd79633ab5d7263146128847f2b429f0603c55, built at 2020-04-06T21:58:02Z, built by goreleaser

  • Upgrade

    chezmoi upgrade

  • Completion script

    chezmoi completion bash > ~/chezmoi-completion.bash
sudo mv ~/chezmoi-completion.bash /etc/bash_compltion.d/

chezmoi terminology

chezmoi’s concepts - https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/blob/master/docs/REFERENCE.md#concepts

  • source state - declares the desired state of $HOME, including templates and machine-specific configuration.

  • source directory is where chezmoi stores the source state, by default $HOME/.local/share/chezmoi

    Can be queried via chezmoi source-path

  • target state is the source state computed for the current machine.

  • destination directory is the directory that chezmoi manages, by default $HOME.

  • destination state is the state of all the targets in the destination directory.

    where targets = file, directory or symlink in destination directory

  • machine-specific configuration is present in a config file at $HOME/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml