Meta-cookiecutter - a cookiecutter for cookiecutters!

This is a template repository for the cookiecutter project that allows you to quickly set up your own cookiecutters!

This is similar to cookiecutter-template, but covers some additional aspects that are important for my work:

• Up to date with later versions of cookiecutter
• Automatically adds license selection to the generated cookiecutter
• Optionally generates cookiecutters that perform a Git repository setup

Prerequisites

Meta-cookiecutter only requires cookiecutter itself, which can be installed with:

pip install cookiecutter

The versioning of meta-cookiecutter tries to express the compatibility with versions of cookiecutter: Major and minor version of meta-cookiecutter and cookiecutter should match, where as they may choose individual versioning for patch releases.

Create your own cookiecutter

You can simply try meta-cookiecutter by doing:

cookiecutter gh:dokempf/meta-cookiecutter

Answering all questions on the prompt will create a cookiecutter that is ready to be customized for your use case.

Configuration values

Running cookiecutter will query you for the following keys. You may consider adding some of these to your .cookiecutterrc file to provide personalized default values.

• project_name is the human readable name of the Cookiecutter you are writing
• project_slug is the slug for the generated cookiecutter
• full_name is the cookiecutter's author's full name
• github_name is the github account this is published on (currently assuming this to happen)
• git_setup: Whether the generated cookiecutter should include a git setup.