Auto-Syncing Chezmoi to Git

I use chezmoi for dotfiles. It works well but I wanted two things it doesn't do out of the box:

1. Auto-add new files - when I create a new file in a tracked directory, add it automatically
2. Notifications - tell me when stuff actually syncs

You can do most of this with chezmoi's built-in git commands and a cron job. This is just a small daemon that adds the auto-add behavior and desktop notifications on Wayland.

What It Does

• Polls every 60 seconds
• Runs chezmoi re-add for existing files
• Auto-adds new files in tracked directories
• Commits and pushes if anything changed
• Desktop notification on successful sync

Install

git clone https://github.com/williavs/omarchy-dotfiles-sync
cd omarchy-dotfiles-sync
./setup

Service starts automatically.

Commands

systemctl --user status dotfiles-sync    # check status
systemctl --user restart dotfiles-sync   # restart
tail -f ~/.local/state/dotfiles-sync.log # watch logs

Configuration

Change polling interval in ~/.config/systemd/user/dotfiles-sync.service:

Environment="DEBOUNCE=120"  # seconds between checks

Reload after changes:

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user restart dotfiles-sync

Ignoring Files

Add patterns to ~/.local/share/chezmoi/.chezmoiignore:

.claude/history.jsonl
.claude/todos/
.claude/debug/

GitHub: omarchy-dotfiles-sync