v9.6.0 (2025-03-09)

Feat

• Add _copier_operation variable (#1733)
• context: expose a _copier_phase context variable

Fix

• explicitly specify file encoding for windows (#2007)
• auto-detect encoding when reading external data file
• settings: auto-detect encoding when reading settings file
• cli: auto-detect encoding when reading unicode-encoded file specified with
  --data-file
• expose only answers in question rendering context
• ignore $file if $file.tmpl exists when subdirectory is used
• decode external data file content explicitly as UTF-8
• decode answers file content explicitly as UTF-8

Refactor

• use common answers file loader

v9.5.0 (2025-02-17)

Feat

• external_data: load data from other YAML files
• settings: allow to define some trusted repositories or prefixes
• settings: add user settings support with defaults values (fix #235)
• add dynamic file structures in loop using yield-tag (#1855)
• add support for dynamic choices

Fix

• correctly record missing stages in index for merge conflicts (#1907)
• allow importing from a file that has a conditional name
• updating: don't crash when file is removed from template's .gitignore file
  (#1886)
• deps: update dependency packaging to v24.2
• re-render answers file path when producing render context
• restore compatibility with Git prior to v2.31 (#1838)
• updating: don't validate computed values
• Don't mark files without conflict markers as unmerged (#1813)

v9.4.1 (2024-10-18)

Fix

• restore support for preserve_symlinks: false for directories (#1820)

v9.4.0 (2024-10-15)

Fix

• exclude: support negative exclude matching child of excluded parent
• parse new answer when --skip-answered is used
• validate answers to secret questions
• updating: do not recreate deleted paths on update (#1719)
• support Git config without user identity

Refactor

• set default value for keep_trailing_newline more idiomatically
• drop support for Python 3.8

Perf

• updating: avoid creating subproject copy

v9.3.1 (2024-07-03)

Fix

• pass --skip-tasks flag to worker (#1688)

v9.3.0 (2024-07-01)

Feat

• add simpler migrations configuration syntax (#1510)

Fix

• tasks: do not consider unsafe if they are being skipped
• add context information to answer validation error message (#1609)
• do not overwrite identical files (#1576)
• updating: unset invalid last answers
• render default list items for multi-select choice questions
• updating: yield merge conflict when both template and project add same file

v9.2.0 (2024-04-04)

Feat

• tasks: add support for skipping tasks (#1561)
• add support for validating multi-select choice answers

Fix

• ignore empty YAML documents in copier.yml
• preserve choices order in answers to multi-select choice questions
• exclude: apply exclude matcher to rendered path

Refactor

• drop pyyaml-include dependency and reimplement relevant features

Perf

• apply PERF lint rules fixes (#1556)

v9.1.1 (2024-01-16)

Fix

• don't fail in systems with windows 1252 encoding (probably)
• skip excluded paths before rendering

v9.1.0 (2023-11-27)

Feat

• Conflicts on updates now appear as git merge conflicts, also on VSCode
• choices: support questionary checkbox for multiple choices using
  multiselect: true.

Fix

• mark package as typed
• Normalize paths obtained from Git commands output
• don't crash when update replaces file with symlink (or vice versa) (#1409)
• keep git-ignored files on update (#1373)
• address deprecation warning in shutil.rmtree(onerror=...) (#1401)

v9.0.1 (2023-10-30)

Fix

• don't produce output when imported with $FORCE_COLOR=1 env