Ideas for a future `create_from_github_template()`

[jennybc]

This would be a companion to the existing create_from_github(), but instead of cloning or fork-and-cloning, it initiates a new repo from a GitHub template repo.

Recent twitter discussion, which references an even earlier twitter discussion. It's kind of hard to capture the flow but poke around these tweets:

https://twitter.com/JonTheGeek/status/1451792675003318277 https://twitter.com/JennyBryan/status/1137178834430619648

Key bits:

• "We use them to create the new repo, then create an R project from that.... I could imagine defining variables in the template, and then the usethis call could find/replace all of the instances of those variables when the new repo gets built. " @jonthegeek
• "I wrote a package, {RepoGenerator}, that creates a whole bunch of files, README, project file and pushes it all to GitHub in a new repo. It has everything I use to teach.... @jaredlander
  • Seem to be: https://github.com/jaredlander/RepoGenerator
• "use_gh_template(template, newname,...), with defaults of filenames or text in files that should be replaced?" @noamross

[jennybc]

Example of GitHub template repo from @rpodcast:

https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects

[jaredlander]

That's the right repo for RepoGenerator. The package creates something like this https://github.com/jaredlander/LearningR