mise-en-place

Appearance

mise dotfiles ​

Deploy, track, and sync dotfiles

A [dotfiles] entry deploys a file (from a source with symlink, symlink-each, copy, or template, or from inline content), removes one (mode = "absent"), sets an existing path's permissions, edits part of a file, or tracks a live file where it is (mode = "track"). mise saves tracked files to a local Git history that you can browse and roll back, and syncs it with other machines through an origin repository. mise dot is a shorter alias.

Deploy files with add, apply, diff, status, and unapply. Track and restore files with track, save, history, rollback, and undo. Sync them with origin, sync, and pull.

See https://mise.jdx.dev/dotfiles.html and https://mise.jdx.dev/dotfiles/history.html

Flags ​

  • --local — Work on this machine's local-only history (mode = "track-local"), which is never shared
  • -h --help — Print help

Examples ​

Start managing ~/.zshrc from your dotfiles directory

mise dot add ~/.zshrc

Deploy every [dotfiles] entry

mise dot apply

Show the state of your dotfiles and their history

mise dot status

Save the history of a directory in place

mise dot track ~/.config/nvim

List saved checkpoints

mise dot history

Subcommands ​

MIT LicenseCopyright © 2026jdx.dev