Minimal Gomplate Test Template

This template project is intended for tesing gomplate for use with a GitHub Template.

Requirements

The gomplate CLI must be installed and available on your PATH.

For example, using go install to install gomplate:

go install github.com/hairyhenderson/gomplate/v3/cmd/gomplate@latest

Verify gomplate is successfully installed and available on your PATH:

$ gomplate --version
gomplate version 0.0.0

Usage

1. Create a new repository in GitHub and select this template as the "Repository template".

2. After creating the new repository, clone it locally.

3. From the local repository root folder, create and switch to a new branch, for example pr-init-template:

   git switch -c pr-init-template

4. Modify the included skeleton-data.yaml input data file with the appropriate substitution values for the provided properties for your new project.

5. Run the following command to run gomplate, which will place the templatized folders and files into the ./out directory.

   gomplate --verbose

6. Next, stash your input data file in case it is needed later to start over:

   git stash push -m "input data backup" -- skeleton-data.yaml

7. Replace the contents of the static template files with the templatized folders and files from the ./out directory.

   ls -A | grep -xv "out" | grep -xv ".git" | xargs rm -rf && \
       mv -vf out/{.,}* . ; \
       rm -r out

   • If you need to start the templatization process over, reset the git index to origin/main.

     NOTE: Backup files if necessary first, this will delete all local changes.

     git reset --hard origin/main && git clean -dfx

     The input data file can then be recovered from the stash to start over with.

     git stash apply

8. When satisified with the results, commit, push, and create the first Pull Request!

   git add -A
   git status
   git commit -m "ci: initial templatization"
   git push -u origin pr-init-template