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cargo, make me a project

cargo-generate is a developer tool to help you get up and running quickly with a new Rust project by leveraging a pre-existing git repository as a template.

Here's an example of using cargo-generate with this template:

Documentation

See the cargo-generate guide for complete documentation.

Templates

One place to find templates is to look for the cargo-generate topic on GitHub.

Quickstart

Installation

cargo install cargo-generate

Usage

# templates on github
cargo generate --git https://github.com/username-on-github/mytemplate.git

# or just
cargo generate username-on-github/mytemplate

# templates on other git platforms
cargo generate gl:username-on-gitlab/mytemplate # translates to https://gitlab.com/username-on-gitlab/mytemplate.git
cargo generate bb:username-on-bitbucket/mytemplate # translates to https://bitbucket.org/username-on-bitbucket/mytemplate.git
cargo generate sr:username-on-sourcehut/mytemplate # translates to https://git.sr.ht/~username-on-sourcehut/mytemplate (note the tilde)

# this scheme is also available for github
cargo generate gh:username-on-github/mytemplate # translates to https://github.com/username-on-github/mytemplate.git

# for a complete list of arguments and options
cargo help generate

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contributions

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions. If you want to contribute to cargo-generate, please read our CONTRIBUTING notes.

cargo-generate would not be what it is today without the wonderful contributions from the community. Thank you!