This also solves one specific scenario explained on #37 (comment)

Any idea when this PR will get merged

@fregante Could you modify the readme of your repo to add installation directions. Now it says npm i -g degit. It should say degitto to make it clear. Also, this might just be an issue for me. But after installing I needed to add shebang #!/usr/bin/env node in the beginning of bin.js to be able to run it. We should make your fork a community driven fork, since this project has been abandoned.

If anyone would like to maintain a fork, please do. Degitto is meant to be temporary and only fixes this issue. I’ll probably rewrite only the part I need and merge into my GitHub Actions Templating project rather than keep degit/degitto as a dependency.

@fregante @paulocoghi @rajasegar @Rich-Harris I started a community driven fork that has this PR included among other fixes. https://github.com/tiged/tiged
I welcome people to star it, if they like it (currently has 1).
When or if Rich Harris becomes active again, I am willing to give him control of that repo or merge it to this.
In the mean time I am looking for people to maintain this repo. Any help is welcome.

If you want to use the fork. Simply run:

npm uninstall -g degit
npm install -g tiged

Then you can just use it like you used to. degit username/repo my-app. You don't need to write tiged (it doesn't even work with that name).

Thank you! And apologies for the long delay. Released as 2.8.1