v9.4.1 (2024-10-18)

Fix

• restore support for preserve_symlinks: false for directories (#1820)

v9.4.0 (2024-10-15)

Fix

• exclude: support negative exclude matching child of excluded parent
• parse new answer when --skip-answered is used
• validate answers to secret questions
• updating: do not recreate deleted paths on update (#1719)
• support Git config without user identity

Refactor

• set default value for keep_trailing_newline more idiomatically
• drop support for Python 3.8

Perf

• updating: avoid creating subproject copy

v9.3.1 (2024-07-03)

Fix

• pass --skip-tasks flag to worker (#1688)

v9.3.0 (2024-07-01)

Feat

• add simpler migrations configuration syntax (#1510)

Fix

• tasks: do not consider unsafe if they are being skipped
• add context information to answer validation error message (#1609)
• do not overwrite identical files (#1576)
• updating: unset invalid last answers
• render default list items for multi-select choice questions
• updating: yield merge conflict when both template and project add same file

v9.2.0 (2024-04-04)

Feat

• tasks: add support for skipping tasks (#1561)
• add support for validating multi-select choice answers

Fix

• ignore empty YAML documents in copier.yml
• preserve choices order in answers to multi-select choice questions
• exclude: apply exclude matcher to rendered path

Refactor

• drop pyyaml-include dependency and reimplement relevant features

Perf

• apply PERF lint rules fixes (#1556)

v9.1.1 (2024-01-16)

Fix

• don't fail in systems with windows 1252 encoding (probably)
• skip excluded paths before rendering

v9.1.0 (2023-11-27)

Feat

• Conflicts on updates now appear as git merge conflicts, also on VSCode
• choices: support questionary checkbox for multiple choices using
  multiselect: true.

Fix

• mark package as typed
• Normalize paths obtained from Git commands output
• don't crash when update replaces file with symlink (or vice versa) (#1409)
• keep git-ignored files on update (#1373)
• address deprecation warning in shutil.rmtree(onerror=...) (#1401)

v9.0.1 (2023-10-30)

Fix

• don't produce output when imported with $FORCE_COLOR=1 env

v9.0.0 (2023-10-22)

v9.0.0 (2023-10-22)

BREAKING CHANGE

• Changes the return code for unsafe template error from
  2 to 4 to avoid return code collision with Plumbum's SwitchError type
  errors which use return code 2.

Feat

• allow overriding data file with CLI arguments (#1332)
• cli: read answers from yaml file (#1325)

Fix

• vcs: prevent local clone from being stuck by gpg prompts (#1360)
• pydantic: compatible with 2.4+, solving FieldValidationInfo warning (#1342)
• fix answer validation for type: str questions
• version guess from tags that don't start with v, but are still PEP440 compliant (#1048)
• cli: use return code 4 for unsafe template error
• nix: detect build version appropriately

v8.3.0 (2023-09-05)

Feat

• add -A as an alias for --skip-answered, and support it in recopy too
• add --skip-answered flag to avoid repeating recorded answers

Fix

• recopy: never clone old template (even less if it's just for cleanup)