Chezmoi

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. ...

Some time ago, I had to reinstall my Linux work environment. As usual, I started by configuring my tools: git neovim rclone restoring my SSH keys reconfiguring my .bashrc … After a few hours days, my environment was usable the way I like it. A few weeks passed, and I moved from one Raspberry Pi to another, from one machine to another, grumbling because my environment wasn’t necessarily present on those machines (rightly or wrongly). ...