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Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely. Version 2.71.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.
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Package summary
Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely
Project links
Commands and aliases
- chezmoi
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Project history and usage
chezmoi is a dotfile manager for keeping personal configuration synchronized across different machines, with explicit support for secure, templated, and machine-specific state.
Project history
The project is maintained by Tom Payne in the official twpayne/chezmoi repository and documents itself as a tool to manage dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
The official release history records a 1.0.0 release on 2019-01-13, a 2.0.0 release on 2021-03-17, and frequent 2.x releases continuing through 2.70.5 on 2026-06-03.
Adoption history
chezmoi's adoption follows the modern dotfiles wave: users increasingly keep shell, editor, Git, SSH-adjacent, and app configuration in version control while needing per-machine templates and secret integration.
The input package metadata lists broad distribution through Homebrew, Alpine, Chocolatey, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, winget, and openSUSE. Homebrew reported 133,114 trailing-365-day installs at research time.
How it is used
The usual package-manager workflow is `brew install chezmoi`, then initialize a source state and apply it on each machine. The documented config file lives under the XDG config directory, with JSON, JSONC, TOML, or YAML formats.
chezmoi is commonly used for repeatable workstation bootstrap, keeping a dotfiles repo portable while allowing host-specific templates and secure handling of private data.
Why package nerds care
chezmoi is one of the notable package-manager-era dotfile tools because it turns a personal dotfiles repository into an installable, cross-platform command with clear config-file conventions.
For package nerds, its attraction is pragmatic: one binary, many package managers, Git-friendly state, and enough security/template behavior to replace a pile of ad hoc shell scripts.
Timeline
- 2019: chezmoi 1.0.0 released.
- 2021: chezmoi 2.0.0 released.
- 2026: chezmoi 2.70.5 released and tracked by Homebrew.
Related projects
- chezmoi belongs to the dotfile-management family alongside Git-backed home-directory managers and package bootstrap scripts, but its official docs emphasize secure multi-machine dotfile management rather than a single-host symlink farm.
- It is frequently paired in practice with package managers, Git hosting, shells, editors, and password-manager tooling, because those are the systems whose configuration users tend to synchronize.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for chezmoi. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.$FORMAT- Windows
%USERPROFILE%/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.$FORMAT
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
chezmoi | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version2.71.1
manager updated2026-07-27
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:chezmoi |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.71.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://chezmoi.io/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi |
| Last updated | 2026-07-27T22:03:46+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation