How to install chezmoi

Chezmoi is developer utility. What follows is background, not a walkthrough. The authoritative version always lives with the project's own team.

How it reaches a system

In practice this means one of a handful of routes: an operating system package index, a registry tied to a language, a version manager, or a source tree built with the project's own tooling. Which one applies is decided by the platform and by the maintainers.

Who is behind it

Direction comes from the people who write the code. Their decisions on releases and support are the ones that matter.

Before touching anything

Start from the support matrix. It narrows over time, and assumptions made years ago often no longer hold.

Interpreting what you see

When results differ from expectations, check what is actually being picked up. Duplicate copies and stale caches are the usual explanation.

About this site

Only text is published from this domain. Each project remains exactly where its authors put it.

Keeping environments clean

Isolating environments, whether with a version manager or per-project directories, removes a whole category of confusing behaviour later on.