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+# Contributions to twpayne/chezmoi
+
+Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
+
+This repository holds only my commits to the upstream project, with their original author, date and diff.
+Each of my commits is preceded by a snapshot of the upstream files it touched, so every diff shows exactly what I changed.
+
+## Merged pull requests
+
+- [fix: Don't double backslashes in shellQuote](https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/pull/5233) (2026-10-11)
+- [fix: Pass /dev/null to diff command for missing files in apply --interactive](https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/pull/5232) (2026-10-11)