Is there a way to get destination direcory in template?

[ErrrorMaxx]

Hi,
I had this line for some time in my .chezmoi.yaml.tmpl to save sourceDir from the first call to chezmoi init:

sourceDir: {{ .chezmoi.sourceDir }}

Today I tried to do the same to destDir and failed. Seems that there is destDir: ... in config but no .chezmoi.destDir in variables.

Is there a way to get destDir, other than parsing .chezmoi.args for --destination argument?

[halostatue]

You can definitely get the value from .chezmoi.config.destDir, but most of the time that will be the same as .chezmoi.homeDir.

It feels like there should be a .chezmoi.destDir and it should be preferred over .chezmoi.homeDir inside of templates so that things which are supposed to be filled in based on what will be resolved (or what has been resolved) can be resolved to the correct path. If I had ~/.config as a symlink to ~/dotfiles/config and set destDir = "~/dotfiles", then I should be adding paths based on ~/dotfiles as my root rather than ~.

[ErrrorMaxx]

Managed to implement one-time save of destDir:

destDir: &destDir {{ dig "cz" "destDir" .chezmoi.config.destDir . }}

data:
  cz:
    destDir: *destDir

It is trying to use saved destDir, or if this is first init it uses current destDir (possibly provided via --destination argument) and saves it.

Thanks @halostatue for pointing me to .chezmoi.config.destDir!

UPD: Changed usage of .chezmoi to .cz dict

[halostatue]

I strongly recommend against modifying .chezmoi values in your configuration file. This is not supported and is likely working by accident.

[ErrrorMaxx]

Thanks for advice, moved everyting into .cz dict