Usage #

Reference to Dotfiles Repo

According my dotfiles are used by mackup, too. And mackup will make them as symbolic links in $HOME path, so I can’t directly add them into chezmoi.

My workaround is add symbolic link and physical file both into chezmoi, and recover all symbolic links on apply target machine.

First, add symbolic link and physical file both into chezmoi

For example:

chezmoi add ~/.zshrc $(readlink ~/.zshrc)

And then I sed all symbolic link paths from absolute path to relative path follow below command

This step is because the symbolic links be joined chezmoi could be point different $HOME path every machine even we use the same username (ex. Linux and Mac use different path)

chezmoi cd
find . -name 'symlink*' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i "" "s|${HOME//\//\\/}|\$HOME|g"

Finally, use this script relink_chezmoi2mackup.sh relink to the real home path on apply target

Because chezmoi not support $HOME env variable as I think, so I need relink it.

#!/bin/bash
# Proper header for a Bash script.
for filename in $(find . -type l ! -exec test -e {} \; -print) ; do
  path=$(ls -l $filename | sed "s/.*>\ \(.*\)/\1/")
  new=$(echo $path | sed "s|\$HOME|${HOME}|g")
  ln -sf $new $filename
done