dynamically-generate-projects-with-github-templates-and-actions/

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Dynamically Create Projects With Github Templates and Actions - Liam’s Blog

This week I’ve been experimenting with template repositories in Github. There’s a lot of really great stuff you can do to scaffold your projects out of the box with them, but I wanted to take it one step further and have a template that only contained the bare minimum and no pre-existing project files other than a .gitignore and the relevant workflow.

https://lgulliver.github.io/dynamically-generate-projects-with-github-templates-and-actions/

[ghost]

Hi mate, I tried this out but the action doesn't trigger. Github states 'create' runs when someone creates a branch or tag. Has this changed since your blog post? Many thanks.

[lgulliver]

Not that I know of other than updating .net versions! I'll take a look and see what's happened. Thanks for letting me know!

On Sun, 20 Jun 2021, 18:37 William Hales, @.***> wrote:

Hi mate, I tried this out but the action doesn't trigger. Github states 'create' runs when someone creates a branch or tag. Has this changed since your blog post? Many thanks.

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[lgulliver]

@91whales I think we may have discovered a bug. See, if I go to new repository > pick template > create, the workflow will run fine.

However, if I go to the template repo and click the use this template button, the action workflow fails to trigger.

[MaxDiOrio]

This doesn't work for me at all. I'm performing other actions, but I have it set to on: create and it does not fire when a repo is created from a template. It doesn't run using either method. Is anyone able to do an on: create and have it run when the repo is created from a template anymore? Thanks.

[lgulliver]

I'm able to recreate the same issue as @maxdiorio. Looks like on: create no longer seems to reliably fire when a repo is created for the first time.

[Twipped]

Does the fork event fire when a template is made?

[Twipped]

Nope, looks like it doesn't. There don't appear to be any events that fire when a template is deployed

[kneyugn]

Thanks so much for this!! I finally got around to this tutorial. Only had to do some updates to the different libraries. https://github.com/kneyugn/the-scaffolder