See what happens if you generate a package and copy pasteanother package's files into it

[jspaaks]

does it still work for packages that are less than minimal?

[jspaaks]

Or maybe even better, somebody else's project files

[eriktks]

Target repository: https://github.com/online-behaviour/machine-learning

This repo had only three files in common with the Python template: README.md, LICENSE and CITATION.cff

Actions:

1. create new repository structure with cookiecutter
2. move all newly created files except the three duplicates to existing repository, one-by-one, and add each of them to git
3. concatenate new README after existing README
4. edit updated README
5. commit updated README
6. commit all other new files
7. push to Github

$ cookiecutter https://github.com/NLeSC/python-template
  ...
$ cd machine-learning
$ TARGETDIR=/home/erikt/projects/online-behaviour/machine-learning
$ for FILE in * .[a-z]*
  do 
     if [ ! -f $TARGETDIR/$FILE ]
     then
        mv $FILE $TARGETDIR
        cd $TARGETDIR
        git add $FILE
        cd -
     fi
  done
$ ls -a
.   ..   CITATION.cff   LICENSE   README.md
$ cat README.md >> $TARGETDIR/README.md
$ rm CITATION.cff LICENSE README.md
$ cd $TARGETDIR
$ vim README.md
$ git commit -m "included python template README" README.md
$ git commit -m "imported from python template"
$ git push

[eriktks]

PR #243 deals with this