chezmoi/Source/Directory

• What is the Chezmoi Source Directory? card

  • My Answer

    • It's the dotfiles repo directory on disk that contains the Declar/at/ive chezmoi representation of what you want your dotfiles to be.

  • Their Answer

    • According to chezmoi/Ref/Concepts, it's

      • where chezmoi stores the chezmoi/Source/State. By default it is ~/.local/share/chezmoi
        

    • According to chezmoi/User Guide/Setup,

      • The source directory, ~/.local/share/chezmoi, is common to all your machines, and is a clone of your dotfiles repo. Each file that chezmoi manages has a corresponding file in the source directory.
        

    • My Notes
      • Their answer is confusing and not intuitive to me.
      • I'm not sure if I'm using it wrong, I wouldn't prefer to store my dotfiles repo in ~/.local/share/chezmoi. Furthermore, if I ls -la ~/.local/share, I don't see chezmoi there, and I'm not sure why I don't.
      • I get the sense that this is the default because one can apply an arbitrary github repo in chezmoi.