How does Railway use THE button create a repo from a modified root of the template?

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Percy•2y ago

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I am mostly referring to the underlying git commands or any similar alternative that is used. I am attempting to create a template repo for Railway with /basic and /advanced versions. Although this works for Railway (thanks to the root directory override), I'm unsure how to make this work for non-Railway users simply using my template directly. I mean, not just users who don't use the button. But people who just do not want to use Railway entirely.

Brody•2y ago

they would just fork the repo and work on whatever version they wanted, deleting the basic directory if it's not needed

GetPsychedOP•2y ago

Ah, my last resort ;-; So, it will just be something like this?

gh repo create --template my-repo
mv my-repo/basic new-repo-name
mv my-repo/.git new-repo-name/.git
rm -r my-repo
cd new-repo-name

gh repo create --template my-repo
mv my-repo/basic new-repo-name
mv my-repo/.git new-repo-name/.git
rm -r my-repo
cd new-repo-name

Brody•2y ago

yeah just use the directoy you want, at that point it's just folders on a computer

GetPsychedOP•2y ago

True. I just wanted to reduce the number of setup instructions, that's it

Brody•2y ago

to reduce the setup, make them separate repos

GetPsychedOP•2y ago

Unfortunate that GitHub doesn't provide an option to override the root dir

Brody•2y ago

being able to deploy from a specific directory is a luxury of railway

GetPsychedOP•2y ago

Not really pedagogical, IMO. Linking users to a separate repo from the README? I'd rather increase my setup instructions a tiny bit haha True Good stuff

Brody•2y ago

I mean, I know of other PAAS platforms that allow you to set a root directory too so, luxury of PAAS platforms**

GetPsychedOP•2y ago

Them being? SourceHut I assume? 🤔

Brody•2y ago

never heard of it

GetPsychedOP•2y ago

Ouch lol

Brody•2y ago

I'm a railway shill for the time being 😉

angelo•2y ago

I have We wanna link to other Git hosts but we need to get our anti-fraud game up

GetPsychedOP•2y ago

Oh, I thought you were referring to PAAS platforms similar to GitHub

angelo•2y ago

root dir was intended for monorepos

GetPsychedOP•2y ago

Yeah, that's what mine would become. anti-fraud 😳 It would be nice if you linked SourceHut since it allows creating multiple git repositories under one project (which fits my use-case perfectly). Looking forward to it!

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How does Railway use THE button create a repo from a modified root of the template?