If people are happy with this idea I will add tests and docs etc.

+1

Hi @Cadair! 👋

Thank you for your contribution. I'm not sure if this approach is better than using --no-input and some custom tooling to populate extra context.

Happy to merge this with tests and docs, if others are OK with this approach.

Ping @audreyr @pydanny @michaeljoseph

What's the situation about this idea? Currently, I'm looking for a way to apply a template over and over again through multiple projects, so this new option to specify a replay file will be awesome to me.

There is anything that I can do to help merging this?

I have not had a chance to get back to the project that this was a part of. I will try and get to it soon.

If you want to speed it up, writing tests and docs for the change in this PR is what needs doing. I will happily merge PRs against my fork with any contributions.

I"m also interested in getting this new option, I think it could help maintainers of templates with several options to reproduce issues. I will try to add the missing parts...

I'm very +1 for this feature, seems like a big hole in cookiecutter functionality. Any possibility of merging any time soon? What's missing?

@hackebrot

I'm not sure if this approach is better than using --no-input and some custom tooling to populate extra context.

The proposed option is very non-intuitive. This issue is by far the least-surprise approach. Cookiecutter already accepts JSON files for the defaults. Like others have said this would simplify testing immensely.

I might suggest also adding an option to generate a .cookiecutter_replay inside of generated repos rather than some user-configured location as well. But thats another story.

@Cadair @browniebroke
Thank you for contribution and sorry us for long delay with answer.
This feature is merged to master branch and will be released with cookiecutter 2.0
At this time you can use it from installing from master directly.

@diegoholiveira @epcim
This feature is merged to master branch and will be released with cookiecutter 2.0
At this time you can use it from installing from master directly.

Awesome thank you for this!

@salotz You are welcome.