Overview

Input

This is the directory structure for a simple cookiecutter:

cookiecutter-something/
├── {{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/  <--------- Project template
│   └── ...
├── blah.txt                      <--------- Non-templated files/dirs
│                                            go outside
│
└── cookiecutter.json             <--------- Prompts & default values

You must have:

• A {{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/ directory.
• A cookiecutter.json file.

Beyond that, you can have whatever files/directories you want.

Note

As of Cookiecutter 0.7.0, the top-level directory of your cookiecutter must be called {{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}. However, in the future, this will change.

See https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage for a real-world example of this.

Output

This is what will be generated locally, in your current directory:

mysomething/  <---------- Value corresponding to what you enter at the
│                         repo_name prompt
│
└── ...       <-------- Files corresponding to those in your
                        cookiecutter's `{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/` dir