kenchan's dotfiles

Managed with mise ([dotfiles] section + mise dotfiles).

Requirements

• mise
• WSL2 or macOS (Linux is treated as WSL)

Install

# Install mise
curl https://mise.run | sh

# Clone this repository (ghq root layout)
git clone https://github.com/kenchan/dotfiles.git ~/src/github.com/kenchan/dotfiles

cd ~/src/github.com/kenchan/dotfiles
mise trust
mise dotfiles apply
mise install

On macOS, install Homebrew first and install mise and fish with it (brew install mise fish).

Layout

Repository	Target	Mode
config/	~/.config/	symlink-each
nvim/	~/.config/nvim	symlink (whole directory)
claude/	~/.claude/	symlink-each
bin/	~/.local/bin/	symlink-each
apm/	~/.apm/	symlink-each

With symlink-each, directories are created as real directories and each managed file becomes a symlink into this repository. Files created by applications alongside them are left alone and never enter the repository.

OS-specific files live in os/wsl/ and os/macos/ and are deployed by mise.linux.toml / mise.macos.toml, which mise loads for the current OS because auto_env = true is set in .miserc.toml (and globally in ~/.config/mise/miserc.toml).

~/.claude/settings.json is managed here, but Claude Code rewrites it; review its diff before committing so work-internal settings are not published.

Usage

Deployed files are symlinks into this repository, so just edit them in place (either path is the same file) and commit here.

# Check deployment state
mise dotfiles status

# Start managing a new file
mise dotfiles add ~/.config/newfile

# Create links for files newly added to the repository
mise dotfiles apply

Migration History

• Managed with thoughtbot/rcm, migrated to chezmoi on 2026-01-05 preserving full git history.
• Migrated from chezmoi to mise [dotfiles] on 2026-07-14.

License

MIT License