Properly handling file paths with spaces in them in merge tool settings in .chezmoi.toml.tmpl
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This feels like it should be a bug, but I can understand not wanting to make all template instantiations use the formatting functions (it's non-trivial to set up). However, I think that you can make this happen with: [merge]
command = "bash"
args = [
"-c",
"cp {{ `"{{ .Target }}"` }} {{ `"{{ .Target }}"` }}.base && code --wait --new-window --merge {{ `"{{ .Destination }}"` }} {{ `"{{ .Target }}"` }} {{ `"{{ .Target }}"` }}.base {{ `"{{ .Source }}"` }}",
] |
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That did indeed work, thank you @halostatue! You have to change the outermost quotes to be single quotes (otherwise it gets interpreted as multiple strings). So this would be the correct thing to do: [merge]
command = "bash"
args = [
"-c",
'cp {{ `"{{ .Target }}"` }} {{ `"{{ .Target }}"` }}.base && code --wait --new-window --merge {{ `"{{ .Destination }}"` }} {{ `"{{ .Target }}"` }} {{ `"{{ .Target }}"` }}.base {{ `"{{ .Source }}"` }}',
]I'm going to leave this open though, since I think the documentation should be updated to make this adjustment clear. |
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This is mentioned on the docs for Diff 
To avoid dealing with so much quoting, you can also use the available functions. For example, I simply use |
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@LeonardoMor appreciate the callout in the docs, but I tried that and it didn't work. I'll try it again just to verify. |
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Using |
What exactly are you trying to do?
I'm trying to implement "Use VSCode as the merge tool" as described in the docs here: https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/tools/merge/
It doesn't work quite right when you try to use something like
chezmoi merge-allto resolve your configuration on files that have paths with spaces in them, like~/Library/Application Supporton macOS. Or at least, I'm not sure why it's not working properly. When it executes the function in the documentation, it appears to be trying to diff multiple files (like~/Library/ApplicationandSupport/<file>) that just straight up don't exist, and I'm assuming it's because of that space in the path.My
.chezmoi.toml.tmplcurrently looks like this:The
.chezmoi.tomlfile that gets generated afterchezmoi initseems correct to my eyes:I tried using the
quotefunction (by adding| quoteeverywhere, like{{ .Target | quote }}), but it seems not to believe that it exists:How can I make sure that the paths that are passed to the
cp/codecommand in the documentation are properly escaped so that spaces are interpreted as part of the path for the.Destination/.Source/.Targetvariables?Where else have you checked for solutions?
Output of any commands you've tried with
--verboseflag$ chezmoi --verbose $COMMANDRunning `chezmoi --verbose merge-all didn't print anything to the console. Anything I should be doing here?
Output of
chezmoi doctorAdditional context
For background on how I got here, I was just checking out the Ghostty terminal, and its config is in
~/Library/Application Supporton macOS. I started managing the config file as part ofchezmoi(viachezmoi add $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/com.mitchellh.ghostty/config), which works fine, however I edited some settings directly in the file instead of viachezmoi, so I decided to usechezmoi merge-allto merge them. It's my first time using that command, and I wanted to use VSCode to do that diff instead ofvimdiff, which led me to the aforementioned documentation page. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: