Public Dotfiles

This is a first-class chezmoi source repository for the public, reproducible parts of the WSL development environment.

Layout:

• .chezmoi.toml.tmpl Bootstrap config template for chezmoi init.
• dot_* Actual chezmoi-managed source state.
• .chezmoiignore.tmpl Prevents repo-only docs and manifests from being applied into $HOME.
• docs/LOCAL-SECRETS.md Local-only data and secrets workflow.
• docs/VALIDATION.md How to validate the source state with chezmoi.
• manifests/ Restore manifests that stay in the repo but are ignored by chezmoi apply.
• scripts/restore-public-dev-env.sh Base tooling bootstrap for apt packages, Homebrew, and the Brewfile bundle.

Deliberate exclusions:

• private credentials and secrets
• all Khoj-related config, data, and environment variables
• machine-local caches, logs, histories, and runtime state
• autogenerated files that are not useful for restore
• machine-specific launcher and trust state
• local identity values and machine-specific paths

Basic usage:

git clone https://github.com/bcorfman/public-dotfiles.git ~/src/public-dotfiles
~/src/public-dotfiles/scripts/restore-public-dev-env.sh
chezmoi init https://github.com/bcorfman/public-dotfiles.git
chezmoi apply

WSL Git Credential Manager

This source state is designed to restore Git-on-WSL using Windows Git Credential Manager, not SSH-agent-based Git auth.

On newer Ubuntu WSL releases such as 26.04 resolute, this repo defaults the browser command to xdg-open instead of wslview, since wslu is no longer packaged there.

For that to work after a WSL rebuild:

• Windows Git must be installed.
• The Git Credential Manager helper must exist at the path supplied through local chezmoi machine data.
• The Windows Credential Manager entries must still exist in the Windows user profile.

Post-restore verification:

git config --global --get credential.helper
git config --global --get credential.credentialStore
git ls-remote https://github.com/bcorfman/public-dotfiles.git

If git ls-remote succeeds without prompting for new credentials, the restored WSL environment is correctly using Windows Git Credential Manager.