Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

I’ve been managing my dotfiles with GNU stow for a few years. I even wrote a piece with a corny title about that setup back in 2023. Stow served me well, but managing symlinks across multiple devices slowly became a pain in the butt. So I started looking around for a better tool and even considered writing my own. Then a colleague pointed me to chezmoi , and so far I’m liking it a lot. It does everything I need, and I’ve started tracking my agent skill files with it too. The machines # I run three Macs: a MacBook Pro for work, a MacBook Air for personal use, and a Mac Mini that acts as a small personal server. The Mini mostly gets SSHed into from the other two. It’s still a Mac with my shell on it, so the same dotfiles apply. I also keep a few Linux VMs around, but I rarely need my dotfiles on servers. Ansible provisions those. This workflow is strictly for the desktop machines. When I outgrew stow # Stow’s model is symlinking. The config files live in a git repo, grouped into…