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Enable "Template Repository" for this repository

Open technicalpickles opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments
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Check out this GitHub feature: Creating a template repository - GitHub Docs

If you set this up, people would be able to then... Creating a repository from a template . The main impact of this would be that users don't have to think about making some choices:

  • fork and have the histories tied (also show forked from)
  • manually create a repository, and change the upstreams to point at the new repository
  • manually create a repository, and empty out the history before pushing up.

Possible downsides:

  • not sure what the workflow to update from the boiler plate is would look like

- Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

feature

- What is the current behavior?

n/a

- If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce. n/a - What is the expected behavior?

- Please mention your node.js, NPM, Hugo and operating system version. n/a

technicalpickles avatar Feb 14 '21 23:02 technicalpickles