Clone an Activator template and initialize a Git repository for the new project

plant.sh

#!/bin/bash

# From ScalaCourses.com Introduction to Play Framework with Scala course

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Clone an Activator template and initialize a Git repository for the new project"
  echo "Usage: $(dirname $0) templateName [repoName]"
  echo "repoName defaults to templateName if not specified"
  exit -1
fi

NAME="$1"
if [ "$2" ]; then NAME="$2"; fi

activator new $1 $NAME
cd $NAME
git init
git add *
git commit -m "Initial commit"
echo "If you create a remote repository, for example at github.com or bitbucket.com, then you should also execute:"
echo "git remote add origin repoURI"
echo "git push -U origin master"