.config/fish/fish_variables has changed since chezmoi last wrote it?

[wchrisjohnson]

I have recently started trying out Chezmoi, and like it a lot. However, yesterday, after adding my fish shell config to Chezmoi I started seeing this:

$ chezmoi apply -v
.config/fish/fish_variables has changed since chezmoi last wrote it? diff/overwrite/all-overwrite/skip/quit

This looks similar to:
#1935

I'm not using .chezmoiexternal.toml. I've searched for caches in fish and the fisher based prompt tide that I'm using, to no avail. Somehow after nearly a dozen attempts to fix fish_variables by chezmoi cd + git add . + git push ... I'm at a loss.

Any ideas of what is going on?

[halostatue]

fish_variables is a cache file. It's where universal variables, that may be updated independently of any action you take, get stored.

You mentioned that you're using IlanCosman/tide, which means that _tide_left_items and _tide_right_items may be updated based on availability. You would need to check a chezmoi diff between the two versions to see what's changing.

I have previously recommended not syncing fish_variables, because there are values which will differ by machine/os. By and large, I have also started not using universal variables in the fish plug-ins that I write, but that's a different issue.

[wchrisjohnson]

Thanks @halostatue - I did search the discussions for fish_variables related questions but missed the one you liked somehow; sorry to have duplicated the questions! All good now that I've ignored the file.

[halostatue]

Even if you had seen that discussion, it may not have been clear that fish_variables is a dynamic file, especially when you are using an advanced prompt like tide.