Control all of your projects with copier!
summary
Copier claims to let one central template repo control many projects by prompting with a copier.yml, rendering Jinja, and then later running copyor update to merge template changes into instantiations. Real demos show migrating flake8→ruff, pip→uv, adding Rust or C++ extensions, and an automated GitHub Action opening PRs for template updates. The workflow uses an update ability with conflict resolution, dumps answers to a copier.yml answers file, and succeeds at reducing manual, repo-by-repo edits.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Copier and project management
- 3:56Manual maintenance pain
- 7:02Project maintenance needs
- 9:08Template system requirements
- 12:18Template system options
- 14:27Why Copier stands out
- 15:11Setting up Copier template
- 17:39Copier features and customization
- 24:04Updating templates with Copier
- 25:50Automating template updates
- 27:36Copier use cases
- 29:41Copier benefits and summary
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