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It's dead simple to manage files in git or such. What Chezmoi adds over that are niceties like: * Permission management, so that ssh wouldn't refuse to log you
by kstrauser 4mo ago
It's dead simple to manage files in git or such. What Chezmoi adds over that are niceties like:
* Permission management, so that ssh wouldn't refuse to log you in because ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is 0755 instead of 0644.
* Templating, because ~/.ssh/config has slightly different options on Mac and Linux, so you can't use the exact same file contents as-is on both systems.
I can run `chezmoi apply` and get all the files in the right places and they're all setup just right. Like so many others, I'd previously built my own ad-hoc system to handle these things, and it ended up looking like a crappy, half-baked version of Chezmoi. When it came up on my radar I immediately ported my own system over to it and never looked back.
- theshrike79 4mo agoAlso encryption with `age`. My ssh config has actual domain names of servers I don't want to publish to the whole internet so that file is encrypted on my public github dotfiles repo. Chezmoi automatically decrypts it on `chezmoi update` and I don't need to think about it much unless I'm editing it.
- kstrauser 4mo agoOh, that's slick. I haven't needed to do that yet and I keep my stuff in a private repo, but see the benefits to it.
- theshrike79 4mo agoI feel that "building in public" works - even for my dotfiles. And it forces me to properly consider what data is public and what isn't from the start.