Remove files that are no longer in the source directory?

[poperigby]

I have some files that I deleted in the source directory, but when I look in the target directory, they're still there. I thought chezmoi apply would fix this, but it didn't.

[twpayne]

chezmoi only looks at the current state of the source directory, it doesn't know anything about its history, and so can't tell if a file has been removed.

To get chezmoi to remove files, you need to create a .chezmoiremove file.

chezmoi takes particular care to make sure that it only removes files when explicitly requested by the user to reduce the chance of inadvertently deleting files.

[poperigby]

Thank you!

[Crocmagnon]

The link is obsolete.

Moved to : https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/blob/master/assets/chezmoi.io/docs/reference/special-files-and-directories/chezmoiremove.md

[gschintgen]

and now it's here ;-)
https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/blob/master/assets/chezmoi.io/docs/reference/special-files/chezmoiremove.md