chezmoi merge

the three-way merge in chezmoi always confuses me, so here’s my hope that writing it down will help my future self.

assumption: you changed ~/.config/zed/settings.json directly and chezmoi status now shows that ~/.config/zed/settings.json has been modified and you want to merge that back into chezmoi.

start the merge flow:

chezmoi merge ~/.config/zed/settings.json

by default this opens in vimdiff in three panes:

LEFT                         MIDDLE                                  RIGHT
Destination                  Source                                  Target
~/.config/zed/settings.json  dot_config/zed/private_settings.json    temp rendered file
current real file            chezmoi repo file                       what chezmoi would apply now

we want to put the change(s) into the middle pane, with vim you can do it like so:

Ctrl-w l     " move from left pane to middle pane
:diffget 1   " copy the differing hunk from pane/buffer 1, the left destination, into the middle source
:w           " save the middle source file
:qa!         " quit all panes

done!

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