@template-tools/sync-cli

Keep repository in sync with its template.

Generates pull requests to bring a repository back in sync with its template.

So by making changes to the template and applying template-sync the target project will be updated accoring to the template.

Works with github and bitbucket.

export AGGREGATION_FACTORIES="github-repository-provider" # for github repos
export GITHUB_TOKEN='token providing repositroy write access' # for github repos

template-sync --template aTemplateGithubUser/aRepo myGithubUser/myRepo

Define (initial) properties to be used in the template

export AGGREGATION_FACTORIES="github-repository-provider" # for github repos
export GITHUB_TOKEN='token providing repositroy write access' # for github repos

template-sync --define "description=a very new fantastic module" -t myUser/myTemplate myUser/newModule#aBranch

Create new repository and bind it to aTemplateGithubUser/aRepo

export GITHUB_TOKEN='token providing repositroy write access' # for github repos

template-sync --track --create --template aTemplateGithubUser/aRepo myGithubUser/myRepo

Switch from arlac77/template-github to arlac77/template-arlac77-github template for arlac77/url-cmd, arlac77/uti, arlac77/content-entry and arlac77/repository-provider

export GITHUB_TOKEN='token providing repositroy write access' # for github repos

template-sync --track --template arlac77/template-arlac77-github --template -arlac77/template-github arlac77/url-cmd arlac77/uti arlac77/content-entry arlac77/repository-provider

Merges contents from template branch into destination branch handling some special cases for:

• Licenses - rewriting license years
• line set files like .npmignore and .gitignore - by merging both sets together
• package.json - merge (.*)[Dd]ependencies, engines and scripts
• rollup.conf.*js - copy / rewrite + detect dev dependencies
• *.yaml - merge
• .travis.yml - merge with hints
• *.toml - merge
• *.ini - merge
• *.json - merge
• README.md - merge badges

Some templates

• arlac77/template-cli-app rollup ava travis
• arlac77/template-esm-only ava travis
• arlac77/template-svelte-component svelte rollup testcafe travis
• arlac77/template-svelte-app svelte rollup pkgbuild travis
• arlac77/template-kronos-component template-esm-only with node 14
• arlac77/template-kronos-app node 14 + systemd

API

Table of Contents

install

With npm do:

npm install -g @template-tools/sync-cli

# template-sync --help

license

BSD-2-Clause