Dotfiles

Optional

chezmoi git jujutsu cmake

To manage my dotfiles, I’m currently using chezmoi.

Before we can use the dotfiles we need to download them first, duh.

native

It’s literally one line (changing the argument to your GitHub username if you maintain a fork):

sh -c "$(curl -fsLS get.chezmoi.io)" -- init --apply DustVoice

Tip

If you want to use chezmoi installed as a system package, instead of locally by this script

1. Install chezmoi

2. Init chezmoi and directly apply the changes (again changing the argument to your GitHub username if you maintain a fork)

   chezmoi init DustVoice --apply

jujutsu

I’m using jj currently, and will therefore use it to clone and make changes to my dotfiles repository.

This means we can’t use an one-liner, however. Instead follow these steps

1. Make sure the target directory exists

   mkdir -p ~/.local/share

2. Clone the repository to ~/.local/share/chezmoi (changing the URL to you GitHub username if you maintain a fork).

   jj git clone --colocate https://github.com/DustVoice/dotfiles.git ~/.local/share/chezmoi

   Note

   Cloning the repository is first done using its https URL, as using ssh with my Yubikey requires my dotfiles to already be setup. As circular dependencies are a lot of fun _not, I will simply change the remote URL later to use ssh.

3. Initialize and apply the dotfiles

   chezmoi init --apply

4. Create chezmoi’s config file at ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml, changing the default git pull command to use jj.

   ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml

   [update]
   command = "nu"
   args = ["-c", "jj git fetch; jj rebase -d main@origin"]

   Note

   You can in also skip this step. You can then simply do a chezmoi cd and run jj commands from within the repository, like you’re used to and exit out once you’re finished.

   For that you probably want to make nu chezmoi’s default cd command

   ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml

   [cd]
   command = "nu"

   Also, if you’re not planning to use nushell like me, you might want to substitute the command according to your shell’s syntax.

   As the jj repository is initialized as a colocated repository, git pull/chezmoi update would in theory work with jj, too, but you might need to update/rebase any changes afterwards.