Command Equivalence¶

Quick reference mapping chezmoi commands to their haven equivalents.

Daily workflow¶

What you want to do	chezmoi	haven
Apply all config	chezmoi apply	haven apply
Preview changes	chezmoi diff	haven diff
Summary of drift	chezmoi status	haven status
See tracked files	chezmoi managed	haven list
Find untracked dotfiles	—	haven unmanaged
Track a new file	chezmoi add ~/.foo	haven add ~/.foo
Re-track a changed file	chezmoi re-add ~/.foo	haven add ~/.foo --update
Stop tracking a file	chezmoi forget ~/.foo	haven remove ~/.foo
Edit source file	chezmoi edit ~/.foo	$EDITOR $(haven source-path)/source/dot_foo
Go to source dir	chezmoi cd	cd $(haven source-path)
Dry run	chezmoi apply --dry-run	haven apply --dry-run
Check for drift (CI)	chezmoi verify	haven diff (exits 1 on drift)

Migration and updates¶

What you want to do	chezmoi	haven
Import from chezmoi	—	haven import --from chezmoi
Pull latest + apply	chezmoi update	cd ~/.local/share/haven && git pull && haven apply
Upgrade the binary	chezmoi upgrade	haven upgrade
Clone + apply on new machine	chezmoi init --apply gh:you/dotfiles	haven init gh:you/my-env --apply

Templates and data¶

What you want to do	chezmoi	haven
Check template variables	chezmoi data	haven data
Preview a rendered template	chezmoi cat ~/.foo	haven apply --dry-run --dest /tmp/staging
Evaluate template expression	chezmoi execute-template '{{ .chezmoi.os }}'	(not available)

Secret management¶

What you want to do	chezmoi	haven
Read from 1Password	{{ onepasswordField "..." "..." }}	{{ op(path="op://...") }}
Read from environment	{{ env "VAR" }}	{{ get_env(name="VAR") }}
Bitwarden / LastPass / Vault	Built-in integrations	Not supported
age / GPG encryption in repo	Supported	Not supported

Features unique to haven¶

These don't have chezmoi equivalents:

haven brew install ripgrep     # install + add to Brewfile
haven brew uninstall ripgrep   # uninstall + remove from Brewfiles
haven apply --profile work     # apply a named profile
haven ai add gh:owner/repo     # add an AI skill
haven apply --ai               # deploy AI skills
haven security-scan            # scan tracked files for secrets
haven unmanaged                # find untracked dotfiles
haven vcs                      # show active VCS backend (git or jj)

The chezmoi cd equivalent¶

# Go to source dir
cd $(haven source-path)

# Or set a shell alias
alias hcd='cd $(haven source-path)'

# Edit haven.toml directly
$EDITOR $(haven source-path)/haven.toml