Make this repository a template
nbstrong opened this issue · 4 comments
Github has template support now. This repository is a template and should be one.
Currently this repository is designed to be used with cargo generate, which means there are a bunch of placeholder values which are not valid if you just copy the repository (mainly in Cargo.toml).
Making it a GitHub template is a nice idea, but it might be annoying that it wouldn't work out the box without replacing all the things cargo generate replaces, and if someone uses cargo generate, they probably don't need it to be a GitHub template, since cargo generate will copy the files for them anyway.
I've not used cargo generate myself though, maybe it would be more convenient to just be a GitHub template?
It really would and imo I'd prefer to have one less tool installed on my system I have to figure out. Furthermore, you'd gain having a reference back to the upstream you can pull updates from.
The only issue is pointing the project variables to the app name and author.
The less ideal solution would be to run a script that changes them. Id prefer it automatically infer it from the base git repo name (folder by reference or better?) which you set when forking from the template repository.
These appear to be all the placeholders
This post seemed to discuss a solution by combining Github Actions:
https://stefanbuck.com/blog/repository-templates-meets-github-actions
I am working on a prototype on my fork.