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What a coincidence. I was looking at awesome dotfiles on GitHub. I started thinking of jumping onto the "manage dotfile" bandwagon after reading today's LWN note on the GNU Stow release. I shortlisted Chezmoi and Comtrya to play with. Then I saw this.

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Been using chezmoi for a while now and mostly happy with it. Managing most of my work and personal configs/dotfiles for PowerShell Core, bash, and zsh across Windows, Mac, and Linux.

The only problem I've run into is that while chezmoi supports tracking files/directories as read-only, once they are created they can't be updated anymore because chezmoi isn't smart enough to swap them to writable and back.

Thanks. I shortlisted Chezmoi. Though I often run into git-related issues with merge conflict, it looks like it has the most brain-share in the community.

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