Developing locally

chezmoi is written in Go and development happens on GitHub. chezmoi is a standard Go project, using standard Go tooling. chezmoi requires Go 1.19 or later.

Checkout chezmoi:

$ git clone https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi.git
$ cd chezmoi

Build chezmoi:

$ go build

Hint

If you try to build chezmoi with an unsupported version of Go you will get the error:

package github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/v2: build constraints exclude all Go files in /home/twp/src/github.com/twpayne/chezmoi

Run all tests:

$ go test ./...

chezmoi's tests include integration tests with other software. If the other software is not found in $PATH the tests will be skipped. Running the full set of tests requires age, base64, bash, gpg, perl, python3, ruby, sed, sha256sum, unzip, xz, zip, and zstd.

Run chezmoi:

$ go run .

Run a set of smoketests, including cross-compilation, tests, and linting:

$ make smoketest