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I'm surprised by this because I find the chezmoi workflow very annoying, to the extent that I wrote my own thing (see my other comment). Where did you find yad

by snthpy 2y ago

I'm surprised by this because I find the chezmoi workflow very annoying, to the extent that I wrote my own thing (see my other comment). Where did you find yadm fall short?

cweagans 2y ago
The workflow that you show in your repository is really not that different from Chezmoi. If you configure a post-add hook in Chezmoi (https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/configuration-file/hooks/ https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/configuration-file/hooks/), you can do `chezmoi add ~/.config/whatever/whatever.conf` and have the file auto-added to the Chezomi git repo + push it to some remote if you'd like. yadm made it difficult for me to take specific actions when a file changed. For example, I configure a lot of macOS settings in my dotfiles (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/macos https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/ma...). When any of the JSONC files change, I need to run a script to actually apply them (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiscripts/darwin/run_once_after_install_defaults.sh.tmpl https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiscrip...), but I don't want to do that unconditionally. Chezmoi tracks that state for me and only runs the script when needed. Ditto with the macOS config profile (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/macos/private_profiles/private_macos.mobileconfig.tmpl https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/ma... and https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiscripts/darwin/run_once_after_install_macos_profile.sh.tmpl https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiscrip... respectively). I was also not thrilled about the idea of shipping an encrypted blob of important secrets around. I want my dotfiles to be public, so it's much nicer when the tool I use for managing my dotfiles natively integrates with 1password. Much of the templating functionality that I use from chezmoi is specifically for pulling stuff out of 1password. Finally, the yadm "alternate files" functionality is nice, but I didn't really care about alternates for different OSes or hostnames or whatever. I wanted some configuration for my work machine(s) and some configuration for my personal machine(s) - that's it. That's the only distinction I care about. Chezmoi made it easy to prompt for the type of machine + change the things that get configured accordingly when bootstrapping a new machine (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoi.toml.tmpl#L2-L4 https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoi.toml...).

by snthpy 2y ago

I'm surprised by this because I find the chezmoi workflow very annoying, to the extent that I wrote my own thing (see my other comment). Where did you find yadm fall short?

cweagans 2y ago

The workflow that you show in your repository is really not that different from Chezmoi. If you configure a post-add hook in Chezmoi (https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/configuration-file/hooks/ https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/configuration-file/hooks/), you can do `chezmoi add ~/.config/whatever/whatever.conf` and have the file auto-added to the Chezomi git repo + push it to some remote if you'd like. yadm made it difficult for me to take specific actions when a file changed. For example, I configure a lot of macOS settings in my dotfiles (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/macos https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/ma...). When any of the JSONC files change, I need to run a script to actually apply them (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiscripts/darwin/run_once_after_install_defaults.sh.tmpl https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiscrip...), but I don't want to do that unconditionally. Chezmoi tracks that state for me and only runs the script when needed. Ditto with the macOS config profile (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/macos/private_profiles/private_macos.mobileconfig.tmpl https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/ma... and https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiscripts/darwin/run_once_after_install_macos_profile.sh.tmpl https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoiscrip... respectively). I was also not thrilled about the idea of shipping an encrypted blob of important secrets around. I want my dotfiles to be public, so it's much nicer when the tool I use for managing my dotfiles natively integrates with 1password. Much of the templating functionality that I use from chezmoi is specifically for pulling stuff out of 1password. Finally, the yadm "alternate files" functionality is nice, but I didn't really care about alternates for different OSes or hostnames or whatever. I wanted some configuration for my work machine(s) and some configuration for my personal machine(s) - that's it. That's the only distinction I care about. Chezmoi made it easy to prompt for the type of machine + change the things that get configured accordingly when bootstrapping a new machine (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoi.toml.tmpl#L2-L4 https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/main/.chezmoi.toml...).