Feat

• add -A as an alias for --skip-answered, and support it in recopy too
• add --skip-answered flag to avoid repeating recorded answers

Fix

• recopy: never clone old template (even less if it's just for cleanup)

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)

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

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

Feat

• customizable update accuracy

Fix

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

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

Fix

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

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

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

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)