initGit

Streamline your repository creation process

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initGit automates a few tiny things that I have to do every time I make a new repository.

• Adds a LICENCE
• Adds a .gitignore
• Creates a project layout using predefined templates
• Runs git init and commits these things for you
• Adds a remote (or doesn't) of your choosing

Alternatively, it'll do only a select subset of those options, if you so desire.

initGit includes a few templates. A template defines files and directories to create and commands to run. The included ones can be used as examples, and are:

• Golang with Go modules and a Magefile
• Python with Poetry
• README only

If you add your own template, feel free to submit a PR to have it included in the project.

Prerequisites

• Go >= 1.15 (1.15 being the earliest version tested on)
• Python 3 (for building)

Installation

You may need to change the go:generate declaration in internal/data/data.go to point to the correct version of Python installed on your system.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/codemicro/initGit.git

2. Build

   cd initGit
   go generate github.com/codemicro/initGit/...
   go build github.com/codemicro/initGit/cmd/initGit

3. Run!

   sudo chmod +x initGit
   ./initGit

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENCE for more information.