Ignore a file after initial deployment

[wzzrd]

What exactly are you trying to do?

I want to initially deploy a kubeconfig or mc.ini file to a new machine. After that, I might want to forcefully redeploy it from the central repo, but otherwise I want to ignore any local changes by default.

Reasoning behind this is that those specific two files will have local changes based on normal usage that I will not want to overwrite from the central repo, nor adopt them into the central repo. I just want to deploy once, most of the time ignore changes, until I choose to redeploy forcefull. Hope that makes sense.

What have you tried so far?

Normal workflow and just hit 'ignore' every time

Where else have you checked for solutions?

• I have read chezmoi's user guide, and not found the answer.
• I have searched chezmoi's reference guide, and not found the answer.

Additional context

Maybe this is simply out of scope, or maybe I'm misinterpreting what is already possible. Just trying to figure this out :)

[twpayne]

For this you can use the create_ attribute. chezmoi will create the file if it does not already exist, otherwise chezmoi will ignore it.

[wzzrd]

Ah, see, I knew there would be something! Thanks!