copier tag

Author: ejfine

.copier-answers.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Changes here will be overwritten by Copier
-_commit: v0.0.15
+_commit: v0.0.16
 _src_path: gh:LabAutomationAndScreening/copier-base-template.git
 description: Copier template for creating Python libraries and executables
 python_ci_versions:

template/.devcontainer/windows-host-helper.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# If you are using a Windows host and you initially cloned the repository directly onto your hard drive, you may run into file permission issues when running copier updates. To avoid these, after initially building the devcontainer, run this from the repo root:
+# cp .devcontainer/windows-host-helper.sh ../
+# cd ..
+# bash windows-host-helper.sh <git-url>
+
+# If you're still having issues, make sure in Windows Developer Settings that you enabled Developer Mode, and also that you set your git config to have `core.autocrlf=false` and `core.symlinks=true` globally
+
+set -e  # Exit immediately on error
+
+if [ -z "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
+  echo "Error: This script must be run with bash (e.g., 'bash windows-host-helper.sh')." >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Check for the git URL argument
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <git-url>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+gitUrl="$1"
+
+# Extract repository name (removes .git suffix if present)
+repoName=$(basename "$gitUrl" .git)
+
+echo "Repo name extracted as '$repoName'"
+
+# Remove any existing subfolder with the repository name and recreate it
+rm -rf "./$repoName" || true # sometimes deleting the .venv folder fails
+rm -rf "./$repoName/*.md" # for some reason, sometimes md files are left behind
+mkdir -p "./$repoName"
+
+# Create a temporary directory for cloning
+tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
+
+# Clone the repository into a subfolder inside the temporary directory.
+# This creates "$tmpdir/$repoName" with the repository's contents.
+git clone "$gitUrl" "$tmpdir/$repoName"
+
+# Enable dotglob so that '*' includes hidden files
+shopt -s dotglob
+
+# Move all contents (including hidden files) from the cloned repo to the target folder
+mv "$tmpdir/$repoName"/* "./$repoName/"
+
+# Clean up: remove the temporary directory
+rm -rf "$tmpdir"
+
+echo "Repository '$repoName' has been updated."