exercises

Git-Mastery exercise structure

When you download an exercise, you will get the following folder structure:

.gitmastery-exercise.json

Configuration fields for each exercise:

1. exercise_name: name of exercise
2. tags: list of tags for exercise
3. requires_git: downloading the exercise will check that Git is installed and that git config is already done
4. requires_github: downloading the exercise will check that Github and Github CLI is installed
5. base_files: provides the files to be included outside of the repository, along with .gitmastery-exercise.json and README.md, most often used for answers.txt
6. exercise_repo: configuration for what the exercise repository would look like
   1. type: custom (creates and initializes the folder as a Git repository) or link (reference a repository on Github)
   2. name: name of repository during cloning
   3. link: (only read if link is present) link of repository on Github
   4. create_fork: (only read if link is present) flag to determine if we need to fork the repository to the student's machine, otherwise it just clones the repository
   5. init: (only read if custom is present) flag to determine if we will call git init on the exercise repository (useful if we don't want to start out with a Git repository)

TODOs

• Add validation for exercise configuration (e.g. cannot fork + not require Github) - to run as CI