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Expand Up @@ -5,9 +5,16 @@ Managed with [chezmoi](https://chezmoi.io). Source lives under `home/`.
## New machine

```sh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://get.chezmoi.io)" -- init --apply natevick
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://get.chezmoi.io)" -- -b "$HOME/.local/bin" init --apply natevick
```

`-b` is not optional. The installer defaults to `BINDIR=bin`, which is *relative* — without
it chezmoi lands in `$PWD/bin/chezmoi`, wherever you happened to run the command. The apply
still succeeds (the installer `exec`s the binary it just placed), so the breakage only shows
up afterwards as `chezmoi: command not found`. `~/.local/bin` is what `dot_zshenv` puts on
PATH. Don't substitute `get.chezmoi.io/lb` either — it hardcodes a relative `.local/bin` and
so only lands correctly when run from `$HOME`.

## Devcontainer / Codespaces

Point your dotfiles setting at `github.com/natevick/dotfiles`; it runs
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