Dotfile Management with mise and chezmoi: The Perfect Combo
I’ve been using the same .zshrc for years. And my .vimrc. And my tmux config. Over time they’ve grown into a carefully tuned system that does exactly what I want. The problem: I have multiple machines. A laptop, a desktop, sometimes a VM for testing. And keeping everything in sync was always… improvised. Finding the right dotfile management solution took me years. I tried everything. And I mean everything. The Long Search It started with the classic: a bare git repo in my home directory. git init --bare ~/.dotfiles, some aliases, done. It works, but it’s fragile. One wrong git clean and you’ve nuked your configs. And good luck with machine-specific settings. ...