Add glob pattern support to copy

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Add glob pattern support to copy #8

Closed loreanvictor closed 1 year ago

loreanvictor commented 1 year ago

Follow up of this thread, copy should support glob patterns similar to update (and remove, after this is merged).

Open questions:

How should this work? For example how would copy x/y/**/*.js -> w/ treat x/y/t/w.js?
How can this be extended? For example, can we also smartly rename files during copy, e.g. interactions like copy *.tmpl.md -> *.md? This perhaps could not support all facets of extended glob, would it be confusing if it worked with a further limited scope?

tommy-mitchell commented 1 year ago

Could be worth looking at https://github.com/sindresorhus/cpy-cli and https://github.com/sindresorhus/cpy. I'm really interested in the glob features, it would simplify making templates a lot.

loreanvictor commented 1 year ago

@tommy-mitchell mirroring the behavior sounds like a good idea. we could copy the structure after the first occurrence of a glob star (**). I will implement this behavior in tmplr-core, which should then automatically be reflected in the final tmplr package as well.

loreanvictor commented 1 year ago

closed by e95e067 (tmplr@0.2.3).