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Feat

• tasks: add support for skipping tasks (#1561)
• add support for validating multi-select choice answers

Fix

• ignore empty YAML documents in copier.yml
• preserve choices order in answers to multi-select choice questions
• exclude: apply exclude matcher to rendered path

Refactor

• drop pyyaml-include dependency and reimplement relevant features

Perf

• apply PERF lint rules fixes (#1556)

Fix

• don't fail in systems with windows 1252 encoding (probably)
• skip excluded paths before rendering

Feat

• Conflicts on updates now appear as git merge conflicts, also on VSCode
• choices: support questionary checkbox for multiple choices using multiselect: true.

Fix

• mark package as typed
• Normalize paths obtained from Git commands output
• don't crash when update replaces file with symlink (or vice versa) (#1409)
• keep git-ignored files on update (#1373)
• address deprecation warning in shutil.rmtree(onerror=...) (#1401)

Fix

• don't produce output when imported with $FORCE_COLOR=1 env

v9.0.0 (2023-10-22)

BREAKING CHANGE

• Changes the return code for unsafe template error from 2 to 4 to avoid return code collision with Plumbum's SwitchError type errors which use return code 2.

Feat

• allow overriding data file with CLI arguments (#1332)
• cli: read answers from yaml file (#1325)

Fix

• vcs: prevent local clone from being stuck by gpg prompts (#1360)
• pydantic: compatible with 2.4+, solving FieldValidationInfo warning (#1342)
• fix answer validation for type: str questions
• version guess from tags that don't start with v, but are still PEP440 compliant (#1048)
• cli: use return code 4 for unsafe template error
• nix: detect build version appropriately

Feat

• add -A as an alias for --skip-answered, and support it in recopy too
• add --skip-answered flag to avoid repeating recorded answers

Fix

• recopy: never clone old template (even less if it's just for cleanup)

Feat

• release on FlakeHub.com too
• add support for pre-update and post-update messages (#1288)
• add support for pre-copy and post-copy messages

Fix

• do not immediately fail if git is not available
• provide more clarification in unsafe error message (#1280)
• clean up tmp dir
• don't lie about updated files
• require default value for secret question
• fix answer validation against conditional choices with duplicate values

Refactor

• drop support for Python 3.7 (#1252)

Feat

• add support for computed values via skipped questions (#1220)
• add --trust as a less scary alternative to --UNSAFE (#1179)
• add OS identifier to render context

Fix

• pydantic: add upper dependency bound to fix unlocked installations

Refactor

• request answers imperatively instead of implicitly via impure property

BREAKING CHANGE

• Updates will overwrite existing files always. If you need to select only some files, just use git mergetool or git difftool after updating.
• Flag --overwrite/-w disappeared from copier update. It is now implicit.
• To update via API, overwrite=True is now required.
• The default update conflict mode is now inline instead of rej.
• By default, updates now consider 3 lines of context instead of just 1.
• All CLI calls to Copier must now include the subcommand as the 1st argument. For example, copier must become now copier update; also copier ./tpl ./dst must become copier copy ./tpl ./dst.
• All flags must go after the subcommand now. For example, copier -r HEAD update ./dst must now become copier update -r HEAD ./dst or copier update ./dst -r HEAD.
• Automatic mode removed. Since now subcommands are required, the automatic mode is removed.
• Deprecated copier.copy function is removed. Use copier.run_copy, copier.run_update or copier.run_recopy explicitly as needed.
• default values must be of the same type than the question.

Feat

• disable unsafe features by default and add --UNSAFE switch (#1171)
• basic nixpkgs overlay
• add recopy command and function
• support conditional choices (#1010)
• validate default values (#1075)

Fix

• explain better why an answer casting fails
• cli: display subcommand args meaning
• preserver recursive symlinks
• work around Pydantic bug when parsing choices
• skip validating question and generating its default value when its skip condition is met

Refactor

• overwrite always on updates
• update: default to inline markers and 3 lines of context
• remove unused local overrides to answers

Feat

• customizable update accuracy

Fix

• fix using a branch name as VCS ref
• answer validation for question with complex choices (#1110)