Multiple source directories

[lutzky]

What exactly are you trying to do?

I would like to use chezmoi for work, and keep the work-specific files in an internal git repo at work (I'd like to avoid even the names of the files being public). Others at work seem to have used rcm's support for multiple DOTFILES_DIRS for this, and I'm looking to replicate this with chezmoi.

What have you tried so far?

What seems to work

Basically this:

alias chezvous "chezmoi -S ~/.local/share/chezmoi_work"

(My french is too rusty to tell me if chezvous or cheztoi would be better, but I'm thinking I'd like to visually distinguish the two 🤷 )

This seems hacky, however, and I was hoping to learn if there's a cleaner recommended method.

Things that don't quite fit the bill

• Externals don't seem like they'd let me chezmoi edit the relevant files.
• Completely separate repos don't let me share common things (of which there are many); the same thing seem to apply to branch-based solutions

Where else have you checked for solutions?

• I have read chezmoi's user guide, and not found the answer.
• I have searched chezmoi's reference guide, and not found the answer.
• Other, please give details.

Output of any commands you've tried with --verbose flag

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Output of chezmoi doctor

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Additional context

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[halostatue]

This is a "layered" approach, described nicely in #2574. I believe that Install Doctor (#3659) is doing something similar, but at the same time very different.

[lutzky]

Nice. I think this kinda validates my approach. Te implementation details of #2574 are such that, for my limited purposes, I'll go with just having two simultaneous-but-separate chezmoi configs with a cheztoi alias (similar to their czb). Thank you for showing me this!