[dngray]

Yup, I tried a number of dotfile managers. I think yadm was the first one I started with and then ended up with chezmoi.

The main reason was because I discovered the power of templating. With Yadm it required an external dependency, envptl, then j2cli, and both of these became unmaintained, while chezmoi used the text/template standard library. After the task of converting my jinja2 templates to gotmpl I never looked back.

One of the other things I like about chezmoi is I significantly cut down any "scripts" to just a few as most of the logic became "deterministic", ie I would set conditions based on the host in chezmoi.toml.tmpl and then that would define how everything under that would run across multiple hosts, and devices.