Turn a cookiecutter replay JSON file into a configuration YAML file, easier to commit/reuse

cookiecutter-replay-to-config-file.sh

# Requirements
- jq: https://github.com/jqlang/jq
- yq: https://github.com/mikefarah/yq
- CookieCutter: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter

# In the following example, the project used is cookiecutter-django.json

# First time: run cookiecutter, chose options
cookiecutter https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django

# Extract parameters from the replay into a config-file
jq '.cookiecutter | with_entries(select(.key | startswith("_") | not))' ~/.cookiecutter_replay/cookiecutter-django.json \
  | yq -P '{"default_context":.}' > cc-django-config-file.yml

# Usage
# Option 1: use the saved configuration interactively with saved options as default options 
cookiecutter https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django --config-file cc-django-config-file.yml

# Option 2: apply the saved configuration without interaction
cookiecutter https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django --config-file cc-django-config-file.yml --no-input