[chef] Re: Re: Re: knife cookbook create --type=minimal

[Mike < >]

This sounds GREAT!

I'm betting the code for this would be minimally intrusive, and would
have immediate payoffs.

Something to consider: there's also `berks cookbook` and such - maybe
these tools might be a good place to affect this change before it gets
into mainline knife?

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Larry Wright 
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 wrote:
> I've wanted this forever, and I would agree with Cassiano that making it the
> default would be ideal.
>
> --
> Larry Wright
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> On Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Cassiano Leal wrote:
>
> I'd probably add attributes/default.rb to the list, but it sure sounds like
> a good idea.
>
> I'd actually go as far as making this the default, or at least configurable.
> It would save a lot of deleting after creating a new cookbook. :)
>
> - cassiano
>
> On Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 15:08, Jeff Blaine wrote:
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> I've opened "New Feature" ticket
> http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4062 with no code yet.
>
> Reason: Tired of cleaning up new cookbooks
>
> Essence:
>
> knife cookbook create foobar (works as normal, --type=full as default)
>
> knife cookbook create foobar --type=minimal will give you only the
> following:
>
> 1. Same metadata.rb as 'full'
> 2. Same README as 'full'
> 3. Same CHANGELOG as 'full'
> 4. Same recipes/default.rb as 'full'
>
> Nothing else.
>
> Oviously Opscode's ultimate call, but I wanted to throw it out
> here as well. Thoughts? Feel free to email me directly if you
> prefer.
>
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