v8.2.0 (2023-08-28)

Feat

• release on FlakeHub.com too
• add support for pre-update and post-update messages (#1288)
• add support for pre-copy and post-copy messages

Fix

• do not immediately fail if git is not available
• provide more clarification in unsafe error message (#1280)
• clean up tmp dir
• don't lie about updated files
• require default value for secret question
• fix answer validation against conditional choices with duplicate values

Refactor

• drop support for Python 3.7 (#1252)

v8.1.0 (2023-07-10)

Feat

• add support for computed values via skipped questions (#1220)
• add --trust as a less scary alternative to --UNSAFE (#1179)
• add OS identifier to render context

Fix

• pydantic: add upper dependency bound to fix unlocked installations

Refactor

• request answers imperatively instead of implicitly via impure property

v8.0.0 (2023-06-04)

BREAKING CHANGE

• Updates will overwrite existing files always. If you need to select only some files, just use git mergetool or git difftool after updating.
• Flag --overwrite/-w disappeared from copier update. It is now implicit.
• To update via API, overwrite=True is now required.
• The default update conflict mode is now inline instead of rej.
• By default, updates now consider 3 lines of context instead of just 1.
• All CLI calls to Copier must now include the subcommand as the 1st argument. For example, copier must become now copier update; also copier ./tpl ./dst must become copier copy ./tpl ./dst.
• All flags must go after the subcommand now. For example, copier -r HEAD update ./dst must now become copier update -r HEAD ./dst or copier update ./dst -r HEAD.
• Automatic mode removed. Since now subcommands are required, the automatic mode is removed.
• Deprecated copier.copy function is removed. Use copier.run_copy, copier.run_update or copier.run_recopy explicitly as needed.
• default values must be of the same type than the question.

Feat

• disable unsafe features by default and add --UNSAFE switch (#1171)
• basic nixpkgs overlay
• add recopy command and function
• support conditional choices (#1010)
• validate default values (#1075)

Fix

• explain better why an answer casting fails
• cli: display subcommand args meaning
• preserver recursive symlinks
• work around Pydantic bug when parsing choices
• skip validating question and generating its default value when its skip condition is met

Refactor

• overwrite always on updates
• update: default to inline markers and 3 lines of context
• remove unused local overrides to answers

v7.2.0 (2023-04-19)

Feat

• customizable update accuracy

Fix

• fix using a branch name as VCS ref
• answer validation for question with complex choices (#1110)

v7.1.0 (2023-04-07)

Feat

• include git in flake app
• support preserving symlinks when copying templates (#938)
• allow imports in inline templates (#986)
• properly support update in repo subdirectory (#1069)
• allow templating _answers_file setting (#1027)
• let answers file exist in a subdirectory
• validate answers given via CLI/API
• exclude nothing by default when using subdirectory
• add native OS directory separator variable in _copier_conf.sep to allow generating
  dynamic directory structures
• nix support

Fix

• include dirty local changes when copying HEAD
• require answer for questions without default value (#958)
• cleanup: don't clean up local template in parent folder
• delete conditionally created file when answer changes (#982)
• properly support diffs over updates with new interactive answers
• ignore Git hooks during project update (#1066)
• properly support diffs over updates with new answers
• skip tasks in pretend mode (#970)
• parse CLI data using question's answer parser
• don't set YAML !include constructor globally (#947)
• cli: use --conflict flag only in copier update subcommand
• ignore template repo tags that aren't valid PEP 440 versions
• --skip option was ignored (#966)
• Remove useless is_dir check
• don't attempt to render a file if its name is empty
• warn users against using shallow clones as template source

Refactor

• tests: remove unknown timeout marker
• deduplicate code
• remove unused method argument
• simplify casting boolean question settings
• remove useless code related to not asking a question
• typing: use Mapping instead of ChainMap type
• move unrelated code out of try-except block
• inline: smarter inline conflict markers algorithm

v7.0.1 (2022-10-14)

Fix

• remove deprecated code scheduled for removal in Copier v7 (#843)

v7.0.0 (2022-10-12)

Feat

• expand tilde in template source path (#835)

Fix

• delete temporary clones after execution automatically (#802)
• typing: remove invalid migration task stage "task"

Refactor

• typing: use abstract container types where possible (#832)
• use dict constructor as default factory
• typing: remove unused types
• remove unreachable code (#826)
• model a task to execute using a dataclass
• reduce module imports

v6.2.0 (2022-09-18)

Feat

• add validator field to Question (#719)
• support passing github or gitlab urls without the .git suffix (#677)

Fix

• compatibility with pydantic 1.10
• git bundle support breaks with relative paths
• prevent name collision for question var name "value"

Refactor

• add "flake8-simplify" plugin and simplify code

v6.1.0

Feat

• support getting template commit hash with {{ _copier_conf.vcs_ref_hash }}
• simplify the format of the question prompt (#689)

Fix

• ignore non-PEP-440-compliant tags (#676)

v6.0.0

All changes here.
Summary:

Added

• Allow using additional Jinja 2 extensions.
• Major version mismatch warning. If your Copier version is too new, you'll be warned.
• Specific exceptions, which will help on error detection for API usages.
• Multiline questions.
• Conditional questions.
• Placeholders.
• Interactive TUI for questionaries. Prompts are way cooler now. 😎
• Python 3.9 support.
• Python 3.10 support.
• Support empty templates suffix, telling Copier to render every file.
• Added --defaults flag to use default answers to questions, which might be null if
  not specified.
• Added --overwrite flag to overwrite files that already exist, without asking.
• In migration scripts, we have the new environment variables $VERSION_PEP440_FROM,
  $VERSION_PEP440_CURRENT and $VERSION_PEP440_TO, which will always get a valid
  PEP440 version identifier, without the v prefix, allowing your migration scripts
  to have a valid standard where to base their logic.
• Raise a CopierAnswersInterrupt instead of a bare KeyboardInterrupt to provide
  callers with additional context - such as the partially completed AnswersMap.
• Support for user_defaults, which take precedence over template defaults.
• Copy dirty changes from a git-tracked template to the project by default, to make
  testing easier.
• Advertise clearly which version is being copied or updated in the CLI.
• Add jinja variable _copier_python to provide python sys.executable.

Changed

• Fully refactored core.
• Running copier copy on a preexisting project now recopies the project instead of
  updating it. That means that it respects old answers, but ignores history diff.
• We use Jinja 2 defaults now. {{ }} instead of [[ ]] and similar.
• We keep trailing newlines by default for Jinja 2 templates.
• Copier will never ask for overwriting the answers file.
• Multi-typed choices follow the same type-casting logic as any other question, so
  it's easier to reason about them. However, if you were using this feature, you might
  be surprised about its side effects if you don't specify the type explicitly. Just
  add type: yaml to make it behave mostly as before. Or just don't use that, it's
  complicated anyway (warn added to docs).
• Changed --force to be the same as --defaults --overwrite.
• Copied files will reflect permissions on the same files in the template.
• Copier now uses git clone --filter=blob:none when cloning, to be faster.
• Removing files from templates will remove them too from the subprojects when they
  get updated.

Deprecated

• Deprecated now and make_secret functions. If your template used those, Copier
  will emit warnings leading you on how to upgrade it.
• Templates marked with _min_copier_version below 6 will still default to use
  bracket-based Jinja defaults, but that will disappear soon. If you want your
  template to work on Copier 5 and 6, make sure to declare _envops explicitly in
  your copier.yaml.
• copier.copy() is confusing, now that actually copying and updating are 2
  completely different actions (before, you were actually always updating if
  possible). Its direct equivalent is now copier.run_auto(), and copier.copy()
  will disappear in the future.

Removed

• Minimal supported Python version is now 3.7 (dropped Python 3.6 support).
• Removed the json method on _copier_conf. Where you would previously use
  _copier_conf.json() in your templates, please now use _copier_conf|to_json
  instead.
• --subdirectory flag, which was confusing... and probably useless.
• Lots of dead code.

Fixed

• A directory that gets an empty name works as expected: not copied (nor its
  contents).
• When comparing versions to update, PEP 440 is always used now. This way, we avoid
  fake ordering when git commit descriptions happen to be ordered in a non-predictable
  way.
• Answers file will only remember answers to questions specified in the questionary.