All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to PEP 440 versioning schema, and the changelog itself conforms to Keep A Changelog.
All changes here. Summary:
- Allow using additional Jinja 2 extensions.
- Major version mismatch warning. If your Copier version is too new, you'll be warned.
- Specific exceptions, which will help on error detection for API usages.
- Multiline questions.
- Conditional questions.
- Placeholders.
- Interactive TUI for questionaries. Prompts are way cooler now. 😎
- Python 3.9 support.
- Support empty templates suffix, telling Copier to render every file.
- Added
--defaults
flag to use default answers to questions, which might be null if not specified. - Added
--overwrite
flag to overwrite files that already exist, without asking.
- Fully refactored core.
- Running
copier copy
on a preexisting project now recopies the project instead of updating it. That means that it respects old answers, but ignores history diff. - We use Jinja 2 defaults now.
{{ }}
instead of[[ ]]
and similar. - Copier will never ask for overwriting the answers file.
- Multi-typed choices follow the same type-casting logic as any other question, so
it's easier to reason about them. However, if you were using this feature, you might
be surprised about its side effects if you don't specify the type explicitly. Just
add
type: yaml
to make it behave mostly as before. Or just don't use that, it's complicated anyway (warn added to docs). - Changed
--force
to be the same as--defaults --overwrite
. - Copied files will reflect permissions on the same files in the template.
- Deprecated
now
andmake_secret
functions. If your template used those, Copier will emit warnings leading you on how to upgrade it. - Templates marked with
_min_copier_version
below 6 will still default to use bracket-based Jinja defaults, but that will disappear soon. If you want your template to work on Copier 5 and 6, make sure to declare_envops
explicitly in yourcopier.yaml
. copier.copy()
is confusing, now that actually copying and updating are 2 completely different actions (before, you were actually always updating if possible). Its direct equivalent is nowcopier.run_auto()
, andcopier.copy()
will disappear in the future.
--subdirectory
flag, which was confusing... and probably useless.- Lots of dead code.
- A directory that gets an empty name works as expected: not copied (nor its contents).
All changes here. Summary:
- Forbid downgrades.
- Print all logs to STDERR.
All changes here. Summary:
- Add
--prerelease
flag, which will beFalse
by default. This is a behavioral change and that's basically why I'm doing a new major release. All other changes are minor here. - Better docs.
All changes here. Summary:
- Make copier work fine with Git 2.28.
- We have docs!
- Polish docs a little bit.
- We now run tests on macOS and Windows!
All changes here. Summary:
- Fix wrong templated default answers classification, which produced some questions being ignored.
All changes here. Summary:
- Fix wrong prompt regression when updating.
- Remove redundant
dst
fixture in tests.
All changes here. Summary:
- Remove semver to avoid having 2 different versioning systems. We stick to PEP 440 now.
- Remember where an answer comes from.
- Do not re-ask to the user if already answer via
--data
. - Support pre-migration scripts that modify the answers file.
All changes here. Summary:
- Templates can now use a subdirectory instead of always the template root.
All changes here. Summary:
- Assert minimum copier version.
- Prettier prompts.
- Prompt self-templating.
- Better README.
This is a big release with many new features added and improved. The code base also received a lot of love and hardening.
- Minimal supported Python version is now 3.6.
- Dropped support for deprecated
voodoo.json
. - Introduced gitignore-style patterns for
exclude
undskip-if-exists
. - Dropped support for
include
option. - Added support for extending content of config files via content of other files via
pyaml-include
. - Customizable template extension.
- Ability to remember last answers.
- Ability to choose where to remember them.
- Template upgrades support, (based on the previous points) with migration tasks specification.
- Extended questions format, supporting help, format, choices and secrets.
- More beautiful prompts.
- New CLI experience.
- Moved to
poetry
for package management. - Type annotated entire code base.
- Increased test coverage.
- Ditched
ruamel.yaml
forPyYaml
. - Ditched Travis CI for GitHub Actions.
- Added
pre-commit
for enforced linting. - Added
prettier
,black
andisort
for code formatting. - Added
pytest
for running tests. - Use
plumbum
as CLI and subprocess engine.
- Expanduser on all paths (so "~/foo/bar" is expanded to "<YOUR_HOME_FOLDER>/foo/bar").
- Improve the output when running tasks.
- Remove the destination folder if the copy process or one of the tasks fail.
- Add a
cleanup_on_error
flag to optionally disable the cleanup feature. - Add the
skip_if_exists
option to skip files, without asking, if they already exists in the destination folder.
- Fix MAJOR bug that was preventing the
_exclude
,_include
and_tasks
keys fromcopier.yml
(or alternatives) to be used at all. It also interpreted_tasks
as a user-provided variable.
- Empty folders are now copied. The folders are also displayed in the console output instead of just the files.
prompt_bool
can now have an undefined default (ans answer is mandatory in that case).- Reactivates the
copier.yml
andcopier.yaml
as configuration files. - The new
extra_paths
argument specifies additional paths to find templates to inherit from.
- Back to using a setup.py intead of a pyproject.toml.
- The recommended configuration file is now
copier.toml
.
- The
copier
command-line script now accepts "help" and "version" as commands.
- Task runner 🎉.
- Use
_exclude
,_include
, and_tasks
keys incopier.yml
as the default values for the.copy()
argumentsexclude
,include
, andtasks
.
- Rebranded from
Voodoo
toCopier
! - Dropped support for Python 2.x, the minimal version is now Python 3.5.
- Cleanup and 100% test coverage.
- The recommended configuration file is now
copier.yaml
, but acopier.json
can be used as well. The oldvoodoo.json
is also supported for now but is deprecated and will be removed in version 2.2. - Python package format updated to the latest standard (no
setup.py
😵). - Renamed the
render_skeleton()
function tocopy()
. The function signature remains almost the same, the only changes are:filter_this
parameter is now calledexclude
.ignore_this
parameter is now called justignore
.
- Dropped the idea of storing the templates in a hidden
$HOME
folder.