git import error with cookiecutter

[cdeil]

@Cadair - I just saw that the cookiecutter branch is already merged and wanted to try it.

Unfortunately it failed after I entered all info:

$ cookiecutter gh:astropy/package-template --checkout cookiecutter
You've cloned /Users/deil/.cookiecutters/package-template before. Is it okay to delete and re-clone it? [yes]: 
package_name [packagename]: hips
module_name [hips]: 
short_description [hips]: Python HIPS client using Astropy and Healpy
long_description []: Python HIPS client using Astropy and Healpy
author_name [Astropy Developers]: hips developers                                    
author_email []:                          
Select license:
1 - BSD 3-Clause
2 - GNU GPL v3+
3 - Apache Software Licence 2.0
4 - BSD 2-Clause
5 - Other
Choose from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 [1]: 
project_url [http://astropy.org]: https://github.com/tboch/hips
project_version [0.0.dev]: 
include_example_code [y]: n
include_example_cython_code [n]: 
include_cextern_folder [n]: 
edit_on_github_extension [False]: 
github_project [astropy/astropy]: tboch/hips
use_travis_ci [y]: 
use_appveyor_ci [y]: 
use_read_the_docs [y]: 
sphinx_theme [astropy-boostrap]: sphinx_rtd_theme
initialize_git_repo [y]: 
astropy_helpers_version [v1.3.1]: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/folders/sb/4qv5j4m90pz1rw7m70rj1b1r0000gn/T/tmpa2ea3jx_.py", line 41, in <module>
    from git import Repo
ImportError: No module named 'git'
ERROR: Stopping generation because post_gen_project hook script didn't exit successfully
Hook script failed (exit status: 1)

Maybe move the from git import Repo to the top of the file to fail early?

[cdeil]

With

pip install gitpython

the files seem to get scaffolded OK.

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An unrelated question I guess: we already have a repo at https://github.com/tboch/hips and I'd like to scaffold the package-template there. Is it possible with one command?
(i.e. scaffold the files in that repo, not create a new sub-folder)
Or should I copy the files over manually to the existing repo, and then re-do the astropy-helpers sub-module manually?

[Cadair]

@cdeil the git thing is on my to do list, I will make it so it won't init the repo if it's not installed.

I am not sure I fully get what you mean but you can set output dir using cookiecutter, but I think it will always create a top level dir. There is a switch to turn off git init if needs be.

[cdeil]

I am not sure I fully get what you mean but you can set output dir using cookiecutter, but I think it will always create a top level dir. There is a switch to turn off git init if needs be.

The situation we have is the:

• there is an existing repo (mostly empty, but with some notes and files)
• I want to scaffold the template into that repo (and add it via a new commit)

I guess there is no single cookiecutter command to do that?
I.e. not make a new git repo, but just scaffold the files and add astropy-helpers as a git submodule to an existing git repo.

If I add the astropy-helpers subpackage manually, I know how to do it, so either way I have a working solution.

[cdeil]

Just for reference, this is what I did for the new hips package: hipspy/hips#1

In the end to work around the problem described in my last comment I did use cookiecutter gh:astropy/package-template --checkout cookiecutter to scaffold the files into a folder hips from within the existing hips repo. And then I moved the files up one level to be in the right place.

[pllim]

git is no longer needed after #438