{"comment":{"created_at":"2011-10-07T21:44:21Z","body":"-0 on this.  I like the idea of templates being repositories that are stand-alone, but I think they should be installed to work.  Maybe this could be done in a way that using a github URL would install it if it's not available?","updated_at":"2011-10-07T21:44:21Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/armstrong/armstrong/issues/comments/2328717","id":2328717,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7d3121c813ff3c3577324a096fe9a5c6?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tswicegood","id":4328,"login":"tswicegood"}},"action":"created","issue":{"number":23,"created_at":"2011-10-07T20:46:58Z","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"patch_url":null,"html_url":null},"body":"We could iterate faster on demo projects/starter projects if they weren't packaged inside armstrong.cli.\r\n\r\nAfter implementing this you'd be able to do: `armstrong init --template=jrhacker/demo foo` which would do a git clone of git://github.com/jrhacker/demo.git or possibly git://github.com/jrhacker/armstrong.templates.demo.git and run the same processes that we do now (running the template engine over files listed in the manifest).\r\n\r\nWe can maintain backwards compatibility by assuming the user is armstrong if the template variable doesn't have a slash character.","comments":3,"title":"Use Github as a project template directory","updated_at":"2011-10-07T21:44:21Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/armstrong/armstrong/issues/23","id":1848724,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"closed_at":null,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/09a0726dd30ebc60c42cb98a60591d7f?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dmclain","id":536102,"login":"dmclain"},"html_url":"https://github.com/armstrong/armstrong/issues/23","labels":[{"name":"cli","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/armstrong/armstrong/labels/cli","color":"02d7e1"},{"name":"feature","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/armstrong/armstrong/labels/feature","color":"ededed"},{"name":"wishlist","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/armstrong/armstrong/labels/wishlist","color":"e102d8"}],"state":"open"},"legacy":{"issue_id":1848724,"comment_id":2328717}}