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Managing dotfiles with version control provides benefits like backup and recovery, consistent configuration, and ease of migration. While traditional tools like GNU Stow have limitations, chezmoi offers a comprehensive solution with features such as templating, password manager support, full file encryption, and cross-platform capabilities. chezmoi simplifies dotfile management by integrating closely with version control systems, supporting encrypted secrets, and handling various edge cases. It allows easy setup and management of dotfiles across multiple machines with minimal dependencies.

Managing dotfiles with chezmoi

I love chezmoi! So helpful, and great intro article.

I use it so much! My challenges are more to mix personal and professional setup, even if chez-moi as several options for that. I try to have my personal setup on public git, and I wish I could do same for professional one but professional one may have adresses to different hosts and other sensitive information.
Why I want my personal on public git? Just to share my setup to others easily ^^. It’s not like people care, but it’s helpful when someone asks a question to do something and I can just point to one of my dot file to show how I did solve this.