cookiecutter / cookiecutter/cookiecutter
Idea: pull default name/email from gitconfig or similar
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Eg: cookiecutter could take values from `~/.gitconfig` (or `~/.hgrc`) for name and email.
It would require some special syntax in the cookiecutter.json to tell cookiecutter to pull the default value from the gitconfig, eg:
- `"name": "{{ name }}"`
- `"name": {"from": "name", "default": "John Doe"}`
- ...
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