Clone templates from a VCS

[adrianrego]

Basic support for anything with a clone command (git, mercurial, bzr?)

Wondering if there's any interest in something like this. Inspired by Idan Gazit's Djangocon keynote. Can be a starting point for "fostering a community of project templates".

Thoughts?

[unbracketed]

Hello adrianrego,

Sorry we missed your pull request until now.

I like the idea. I was just thinking we should remove some of the Lincoln Loop specific defaults and make a few things more externally configurable. Long-term the project could evolve into a more generalized protocol for collecting and managing project defaults/configs with some hooks for customizing things like project layout.

Thanks for the spark of inspiration, we'll put some thought into this.

[adrianrego]

I'm not a fan of the actual patch myself. It was a quick hack as a proof-of-concept. Let me know if I can help in any way going forward.