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Add optional argument to dotnet new for adding .gitignore
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Based off of Twitter thread for folks https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin/status/1571908208675147776
Describe the solution you'd like
Adding a new argument to dotnet new that will allow adding a .gitignore to the output of the command. For instance
dotnet new web --add-git
First step would be to identify the templates that should have this option. Only some of them are in this repo. You can check the README on the dotnet/templating repo for a more up-to-date list of repos that own specific templates - I try to keep that up to date. Then, for each project template that should have this option, you'd add a new symbol to the template.json - note that there are different templates for each supported language, so you'd need to replicate that symbol.
Once you have a symbol defined, you'd add a postAction that has a condition that checks the symbol you defined earlier. I'd suggest looking at the run script postAction. Once you've made the changes, you can test by running dotnet new install path/to/template/folder to install the templates in that folder, invoke them, then uninstall with dotnet new uninstall path/to/template/folder.
Got it, so there isn't a universal template that all the other templates inherit from? I was thinking at the same level the output argument, but you are saying it needs to be done at every template.
Got it. So this change will need to be in a few different repos than. I will take a look
this is very much related to https://github.com/dotnet/templating/issues/3208 and https://github.com/dotnet/templating/issues/2771.
@vlada-shubina is there work being done in this space? I would hate to start the process of updating every template if there is a new process coming at some point.
No, unfortunately there is no definite timeline for those features at the moment.
@baronfel when I get to a point to test the templates, I assume I need to build them into a a nupack file from the repo the templates are in (for instance the aspnet repo)? Than build a new version of dotnet new than run the command you provided? The docs aren't super clear
We decided it falls in scope of https://github.com/dotnet/templating/issues/3208 or https://github.com/dotnet/templating/issues/2771, but there is no definite timeline on that yet.