Updating sub folders of the project.

[Ducica]

FIrst, thanks a lot for developing this project, it is really helpful for us.

I got a question please. Would like to understand if this is by design not possible or we are doing something wrong.

We have a project that we scaffold with copier. This project also has some subfolders, that need to be separately generated, so we use two different copier templates for this. One for top level project and one for certain folders in it. This works ok.

Let us say it looks something like this

project-template/
├── .copier-answers.yml
└── submodule/
└── .copier-answers.yml

now if I want to update the submodule part (note that it also interacts with some items on the top level of the structure, I need to call copier update in the top level folder, but even if I do explicitly --data-file submodule/.copier-answers.yml, it still uses the template and commit from the top level .copier-answers.yml.

Is this something unsupported please? Or we are not using the tool correctly?

[pawamoy]

You might want to try --answers-file instead of --data-file.

[Ducica]

@pawamoy Geez, thanks a lot! that seems to work as expected!