chezmoi: our changes to an open source project
A dotfiles manager that keeps the same settings on many different machines, securely.
- Language
- Go
- GitHub stars
- 21,895
- Project site
- www.chezmoi.io
The changes merged into chezmoi
shellQuote no longer doubles backslashes inside single quotes, and choosing diff in apply --interactive for a file that does not exist yet compares it with /dev/null, the way chezmoi diff does.
- Pull request #5233merged on 11 October 2026
- Pull request #5232merged on 11 October 2026
fix: Pass /dev/null to diff command for missing files in apply --interactive
github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/pull/5232
What it taught us
Inside POSIX single quotes a backslash means nothing, so quoting has to leave it as it is. A tool that calls an outside program has to hand it paths that really exist.
Other projects with our changes: Go
21 projects in this technology have our merged changes. The bar is the repository's stars, next to it the number of our changes. Each row leads to the project's page.
chezmoi among all our changes
Day by day from 5 September 2026 to 11 October 2026. A column is every change merged that day, the accent is the changes in chezmoi.
- Changes in chezmoi
- Changes in other projects
2 merged changes in chezmoi
The first on 11 October 2026, the latest on 11 October 2026.
On the same day
Changes of ours were also merged into: ILSpy, OpenRA, Kanboard, NLog, tablewriter.
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