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Copier has a few quirks with vcs that I just discovered by trying to test out some changes. I may have some config that I have long forgotten about somewhere deep in my dotfiles, I don't think so, but id love to be wrong and corrected, please reach out.
What Doesn't Work #
I tried throwing everything at this template to make it work. I tried a bunch of flags that did not work. I tried making commits to the local repo to get rid of the dirty warning. I really wanted to test new changes locally without committing and pushing untested and potentially broken changes.
uvx copier copy ../markata-blog-starter . uvx copier copy gh:waylonwalker/markata-blog-starter@develop . uvx copier copy ../markata-blog-starter . -wlg --trust
What Works - --vcs-ref #
Finally after trying everything to get the local copy to work, and my guess of @branch not working I found this to work. It does require me to go to the repo on my develop branch.
uvx copier copy gh:waylonwalker/markata-blog-starter --vcs-ref develop .
What Works - delete .git #
Really this might be my best option to make quick changes and test them locally without going through a version control system. It is not ideal, but makes it easy to quickly iterate on. I might be renaming .git, or copying to /tmp for quick iteration.
rm -rf .git uvx copier copy ../markata-blog-starter .
Copier I love #
Copier is a great templating tool. I really love it. I use it every single
day to create posts on this blog using
tmux-copier-templates
. This is
the first time this quirk has got me and it had me puzzled for 45 minutes as I
did not expect this behavior whatsoever.
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