Automatically add all files

[rubiin]

While editing alot of configs , i sometimes forget to add them to chezmoi and later run into some issues
so just wanted to ask if there was a way to automatically add all files managed by chezmoi

[halostatue]

Within chezmoi, no and it’s not a feature that is suitable for addition to chezmoi. However #3680 suggests a possible approach that can be used, although it is Linux-specific. #3697 points to chezmoi managed --include=dirs that could seed files to watch for changes.

There are potential downsides:

• Watching for changes would trigger your watch flow with chezmoi apply.
• Using chezmoi add to re-add files will destroy any templating you applied. Consider using chezmoi re-add, but that will not update templates.

I generally use chezmoi merge-all to make sure I have merged all my files prior to apply, which allows me to test out changes in realtime but apply periodically for clean updates.