Syncthing for Dotfiles: Sync vs. Manage

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Just some AI generated BS, not worth anyones time...

Confirmed it is slop and u can tell from the wording that it is too, all the LLM-isms are obvious. Also there's no usecase where syncthing and chezmoi make sense. The whole point of version control is being able to keep a log of what you changed easily (something syncthing isn't designed for).

Just use a git repo and the templating function if you have secrets. If you want the entire thing to be secret then use a private repo, or self host it.

I've been using chezmoi + Syncthing for about a year now. I don't want to have to manually git commit + push + pull everytime I change a config file, so I just sync the chezmoi directory between all my devices (around 8 total). I also have a dedicated VM that I use as a central Syncthing node, and on there I have a script that pushes the chezmoi directory to my Gitea instance on an hourly basis. I then ignore the git directory in Syncthing so only the VM has the git repo and the other devices don't waste space storing/syncing it.

Maybe once every 2-3 months I will need to go back and find a previous version of a file.

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