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In a previous post, I mentioned we would revisit chezmoi templates. Today, let’s explore how to use these templates to manage your tool versions with asdf. Data Chezmoi lets you define a mini database to store whatever you want! These data must be defined in the .chezmoidata/ folder. Let’s start by creating an asdf.yaml file in this folder to store our tool versions. .chezmoidata/asdf.yaml : asdf: version: 0.18.0 tools: - name: age version: 1.2.1 plugin_url: - name: bat version: 0.25.0 plugin_url: - name: chezmoi version: 2.64.0 plugin_url: - name: github-cli version: 2.76.2 plugin_url: - name: golang version: 1.25.0 plugin_url: - name: hugo version: 0.148.2 plugin_url: - name: lazygit version: 0.54.2 plugin_url: - name: lsd plugin_url: https://github.com/ossareh/asdf-lsd.git version: 1.1.5 - name: neovim version: 0.11.3 plugin_url: - name: nodejs version: 24.6.0 plugin_url: - name: rclone version: 1.70.3 plugin_url: - name: shellcheck version: 0.11.0 plugin_url: - name: shfmt version: 3.12.0 plugin_url: - name: upx version: 5.0.2 plugin_url: - name: yq version: 4.47.1 plugin_url: - name: gum version: 0.16.2 plugin_url: - name: starship version: 1.23.0 plugin_url: Templates Chezmoi allows you to use templates to customize your configuration files. You can use variables to replace values in your files. ...

At work, our dev team works with various technologies like NodeJS/Typescript, Java, Go… And from time to time, we need to revisit a project to make some changes. And often, it’s the same story: Oh yeah, but this project is legacy, it doesn’t compile with the current versions anymore. I either have to rewrite everything or reinstall an old version that’s no longer available on Debian… Sometimes we also hear: ...