Dotfiles Starter Repository

A starter repository to get you started with chezmoi and your precious config files on your system (dotfiles).

How Does It Work?

This repository acts as a repository for chezmoi. The tool chezmoi manages your configuration files between a Git repo to your $HOME directory (or somewhere else).

In this repo only zsh and git config files are managed for you as a starter config. The ZSH setup is a nice structured setup which provides the basic.

The tool chezmoi default behavior works by first initiating it with chezmoi init <repo> which will clone the <repo> by default to ~/.config/local/chezmoi. Any chezmoi apply will take managed files in your config and apply it to your $HOME folder (if you made change for any managed files in your home folder, chezmoi will prompt you to overwrite).

Test Setup in Container

just test-in-container
# or with docker
just container_mgr=docker test-in-container

This will log you into ZSH in a container (to not mess with your system) to test out the ZSH and Git settings and to get a look and feel of Chezmoi.

For the impatient do just test-in-container --apply, for the ones wanting a follow through jump through the next sections.

Initialize chezmoi

cd ~/workspace
chezmoi init ./

Apply all Configuration Files

cd ~/.local/config/chezmoi
chezmoi apply

and inspect the changes with

tree ~/.config

Login again into ZSH

zsh

Which will directly use all config files, install ZSH plugin on startup and present you with a nice prompt like this:

╭─     ~/.local/share/chezmoi on    master ·······························································································   impure
╰─❯