Question

Your team creates several new microservice repositories each quarter. Every new repo must start with the same folder layout, a standard README skeleton, a preconfigured .gitignore, and an issue template. Developers currently copy these files manually, which leads to inconsistencies. Which GitHub feature should the team use to ensure every new repository starts with this exact baseline automatically?

Accepted Answer

Mark the baseline repository as a template repository and create new repos from it

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Fork the baseline repository each time a new service is needed

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Add a CODEOWNERS file to the baseline repository so files are copied on clone

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Enable branch protection rules on the baseline repository's main branch