PACT (Project Automation and Cloning Tool)

PACT (Project Automation and Cloning Tool) is a lightweight command-line utility written in C. It simplifies the process of creating and managing project directories. With configurable templates and support for Git and tmux, PACT provides a to extent customizable workflow for developers. Yet it's still my vision of how I like to work meaning it won't work for everyone and that's not the point of this tool either.

Rewrite in C of originaly writen by me but in Rust project (check branch inRust if intrested).

Why?

• Didn't want to write in Rust
• Wanted to learn more C
• Wanted to learn about suckless Philosophy from the insides Suckless.org
• WHY NOT? C is a simple language and this is a simple project. Thus why the need of dependencies?

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Features

• New Project Creation:

  • Automatically sets up a directory structure based on project type and programming language.
  • Copies shared and language-specific templates into the project directory.
  • Initializes Git repositories (if applicable).
  • Starts a tmux session for the project.

• Clone Existing Repositories:

  • Clones a Git repository into a structured directory.
  • Optionally renames the cloned repository.
  • Starts a tmux session for the cloned project.

• Fully Configurable:

  • All configurations, including base directories, supported languages, and templates, are managed in config.h
  • No external environment variables required.

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Installation

I Store my templates in another repo PACT_templates But a template structure is included in pact_templates dir. You can use that

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone [email protected]:Abishevs/PACT.git 
   cd pact

2. Compile

    make 

3. Edit config.h to point to correct paths. Note use ABS paths!

4. Recompile & install into ~/.local/bin/

   make install 

Configuration

All paths should be absolute, only templates path is relative to the PACT_TEMPLATES (which is the root dir of where those are stored).

One can have both templates and or init_command set to NULL. init command cannot yet use Users aliases, only system wide.