# chezmoi

chezmoi is an open-source tool for securely managing personal configuration files (dotfiles) across multiple machines, with templating, encryption, password-manager integration, and script support.

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## Gestion des dotfiles et des secrets avec chezmoi

DevFeed: [Gestion des dotfiles et des secrets avec chezmoi](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/gestion-des-dotfiles-et-des-secrets-avec-chezmoi-26072.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.arkey.fr/2020/04/01/manage_dotfiles_with_chezmoi.fr/>)

Author: brice.dutheil@gmail.com (Brice Dutheil)

Published: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: fr

Sources: [The Coffee Workshop](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-coffee-workshop.md>)

Topics: [chezmoi](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chezmoi.md>), [dotfiles](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dotfiles.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>)

Tags: [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [repo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/repo.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>)

### AI overview

This French tutorial explains how to manage dotfiles and secrets with chezmoi when configuring a new machine. It covers initializing the chezmoi repository, adding files, synchronizing the repository with a remote Git repository, reviewing differences, and applying changes between source and target files.

### Source excerpt

Régulièrement il nous arrive d'avoir à re-configurer une nouvelle machine, avec notamment la re-configuration des fichiers du $HOME. Il y a plusieurs approches et outils, faire une simple archive, utiliser git pour le répertoire $HOME, utiliser des outils comme GNU stow, etc.

## Managing dotfiles and secret with chezmoi

DevFeed: [Managing dotfiles and secret with chezmoi](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/managing-dotfiles-and-secret-with-chezmoi-26073.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.arkey.fr/2020/04/01/manage_dotfiles_with_chezmoi/>)

Author: brice.dutheil@gmail.com (Brice Dutheil)

Published: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [The Coffee Workshop](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-coffee-workshop.md>)

Topics: [chezmoi](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chezmoi.md>), [dotfiles](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dotfiles.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [passwords](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/passwords.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

Tags: [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [commands](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/commands.md>), [files](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/files.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [machine](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine.md>), [password](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/password.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

### AI overview

A tutorial on using chezmoi to manage dotfiles across machines, synchronize them through Git, compare and apply changes, and handle secret-containing files with templating and 1Password.

### Source excerpt

Every once in a while, you may need to bootstrap a new machine, and along with it to reconfigure home directory's dot files. Various approaches already exist, using simple archive, git the home directory, gnu stow (symlinks), etc.