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A set of Github templates that accelerate your project setup and configuration.
- Overview
- Screenshots
- Installing
- Authors
- License
- Contributing
- Code of Conduct
- Versioning
- Change-Log
- Acknowledgements
Everything you need is contained within the /templates/ folder. This includes all the files needed to start a project from scratch, which include:
- .github/ folder with templates for working with Github's Issue and Pull Request. See the screenshots below for how these integrate directly with Github.
- .gitignore file to ignore certain files and folders.
- CHANGELOG.md file provides a template for tracking releases and changes.
- CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file which governs your project.
- CONTRIBUTING.md file outlining how contributors can get involved.
- README.md file which is thorough and can be tailored to your needs.
- _licenses/ folder containing all available open-source licenses.
The below output is the full file list of the /templates/ folder.
templates/
├── _core/
│ ├── .github/
│ │ ├── ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
│ │ │ ├── BUG_REPORT.md
│ │ │ ├── CUSTOM.md
│ │ │ └── FEATURE_REQUEST.md
│ │ └── PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
│ ├── .gitignore
│ ├── CHANGELOG.md
│ ├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
│ ├── CONTRIBUTING.md
│ └── README.md
└── _licenses/
├── afl-3.0.txt
├── agpl-3.0.txt
├── apache-2.0.txt
├── artistic-2.0.txt
├── bsd-2-clause.txt
├── bsd-3-clause-clear.txt
├── bsd-3-clause.txt
├── bsl-1.0.txt
├── cc-by-4.0.txt
├── cc-by-sa-4.0.txt
├── cc0-1.0.txt
├── ecl-2.0.txt
├── epl-1.0.txt
├── epl-2.0.txt
├── eupl-1.1.txt
├── eupl-1.2.txt
├── gpl-2.0.txt
├── gpl-3.0.txt
├── isc.txt
├── lgpl-2.1.txt
├── lgpl-3.0.txt
├── lppl-1.3c.txt
├── mit.txt
├── mpl-2.0.txt
├── ms-pl.txt
├── ms-rl.txt
├── ncsa.txt
├── ofl-1.1.txt
├── osl-3.0.txt
├── postgresql.txt
├── unlicense.txt
├── upl-1.0.txt
├── wtfpl.txt
└── zlib.txt
The screenshots below demonstrate how the files contained in the .github/ folder integrate with Github's Issue and Pull Request features. As you will see, each template allows you to have a unique template when logging Issues or creating a Pull Request.
First off you want to clone the repository to your local machine. You can do so by running the following commands in a terminal.
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/justinhartman/github-templates github-templates
$ cd github-templates/
If you're checking out the code from GitHub please note that specifying a name for the checkout folder (e.g. github-templates) when running git clone is very important. If you don't, git will checkout the repo to a folder called .github on your local machine. If you are using macOS or Linux you won't be able to see the newly checked out repo due to the fact it begins with a period (.) and will be hidden by the file-system. It is there; you just cannot see it without running something like ls -la.
To copy the main project structure for a new project simply execute the following commands from the repository root folder.
$ cd templates/
$ cp -R _core/ /path/to/your/project/folder/ # change path to your project
This will copy all the files from the _core/ folder into your project root folder. Your project will now contain the following files:
/path/to/your/project/folder/
├── .github/
│ ├── ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
│ │ ├── BUG_REPORT.md
│ │ ├── CUSTOM.md
│ │ └── FEATURE_REQUEST.md
│ └── PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
├── .gitignore
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
└── README.md
You may not want to copy everything contained in the _core/ folder; especially if you've already initiated a git repo (i.e. git init) and have a .gitignore and/or README.md file already contained in your project path.
Copying only some of the main project structure files can be achieved by running the following commands.
$ cd templates/_core/
$ cp -R .github .gitignore CHANGELOG.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md \
CONTRIBUTING.md README.md \
/path/to/your/project/folder/ # change path to your project
You can simply remove the file(s) and/or .github folder from the above cp command thereby copying only the files/folder you need. For example, the below will copy everything except the README.md and .gitignore files.
$ cp -R .github CHANGELOG.md CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md CONTRIBUTING.md \
/path/to/your/project/folder/ # change path to your project
The _licenses folder contains a collection of largely most of the open-source licenses available. To copy a license, choose one from the folder and run the following from your terminal.
$ cd templates/_licenses/
$ cp mit.txt /path/to/your/project/folder/LICENSE # change path to your project
# but leave LICENSE intact
NB: make sure that when you copy a license file you always name your license as LICENSE and not, for example, mit.txt. Github looks for a file called LICENSE in the root of your project folder so anything other than this and Github won't be able to figure out what license your project is under.
Once you have copied across the basic project structure and a license file you should end up with your project directory looking like this:
/path/to/your/project/folder/
├── .github/
│ ├── ISSUE_TEMPLATE/
│ │ ├── BUG_REPORT.md
│ │ ├── CUSTOM.md
│ │ └── FEATURE_REQUEST.md
│ └── PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
├── .gitignore
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── LICENSE
└── README.md
These templates have been designed to work out-the-box without much need for intervention on your part. There are however a few files where you will need to make some changes in order to tailor this to your project. See below for a list of changes you should make before committing to your repo.
As a recommendation, it is better to edit the files in your project folder rather than in this repository. This will allow you to update the repo without losing any changes you may have made.
- /.gitignore - this template has been configured to ignore file-system specific files for macOS, Windows and Linux. Delete whatever is not relevant to your needs.
- /CHANGELOG.md - update your versioning structure and enter a release date.
- /README.md - you will make many changes to this file but you must update the URLs at the end of the file. Currently they link to this repo and should be replaced with your Github project URL.
- /CONTRIBUTING.md - as with the README.md you need to update the links to your project at the end of the file.
- /CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md - at the end of this file you will need to replace the generic email address with an email address for your project.
- Justin Hartman - @justinhartman
Also see the list of contributors who have participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for full details.
Copyright (C) 2018 Justin Hartman <justin@hartman.me>.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file for details on how you can get involved in the project as well as the process for submitting bugs and pull requests.
Please read the CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file for the guidelines that govern the community.
We use Semantic Versioning for software versions of this project. For a list of all the versions available, see the tags and releases on this repository.
View the CHANGELOG.md file for a detailed list of changes, along with specific tasks completed for each version released to date.
Special thanks go out to the following people and projects who have helped in some way to make this project a reality.
- @daniellmb/.github - for the original idea to create a .github template pack.
- PurpleBooth/README-Template.md - for the README file inspiration.
- Github - for the ISSUE_TEMPLATE template files.