cargo-generate 0.9.0

Release 0.9.0

on Rust Cargo

✨ Features

• enable paging for long choice lists

  improving the handling of very long choice lists long
  see #400, by @taurr

• template parsing: handle undefined variables gracefully

  Undefined template variables do not cause any breaking of the template generation any longer. They will be kept as they are.

  see #204,
  #205,
  by @sassman

• TEMPLATES.md: link to cargo-generate topic

  Template repos should be tagged with the cargo-generate GitHub topic, read more..

  by @MarcoIeni,
  #407
  by @sassman

• Add init like behavior.

  a template can now be generated into the current dir, without a git init or anything, read more..

  see #193,
  by @taurr

• Allow version requirement in cargo-generate.toml

  a template can now define the compatible cargo generate version number requirement as a requirement, read more..
  see #76,
  by @taurr

• Allow cargo-generate.toml as alternative to cargo-generate.,
  by @taurr

• fix(tests:linux): use the current directory for canonicalize result,
  by @orhun

• Introduce --path flag

  supporting now local folders (that are not under git) as templates via --path <local-folder>

  see #406,
  #47

  also #390,
  #387
  by @taurr

• Allow specification of default template values

  default values for template variables can now be defined on several levels, external file, in the favorites configuration and via environment variables, read more..

  see #389,
  #46,
  by @taurr

• template variables via environment variables

  #389,
  by @taurr

• template variables in Directories,
  #396

  supporting now template variables as directory names like {{project_name}}/{{project_name}}.rs

  by dave-tucker
  and #395
  by @taurr

• Allow --define to specify values
  #389

  command line argument --define to define template variables

  by @taurr

• Improve output of --list-favorites
  by @taurr

🛠️ Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump openssl from 0.10.35 to 0.10.36
• README: improve cargo_generate_version example
• ci: add documentation check
• fix additional clippy lints
• Fix typo in README.md
• Only use cross for linux prebuilt binaries
• chore(deps): bump anyhow from 1.0.42 to 1.0.43
• chore(deps): bump predicates from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2
• chore(deps): bump git2 from 0.13.20 to 0.13.21
• chore(deps): bump cargo from 0.54.0 to 0.55.0
• chore(deps): bump assert_cmd from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8
• chore(deps): bump assert_cmd from 1.0.8 to 2.0.0