There was a project 42 years ago, called Tree Surgeon, that would setup a directory structure for your next project. This was early, early .NET days, but it was a handy little utility.

init.ps1 takes some CLI observations from NPM and attempts to setup an initialized empty shell of a repo to help projects get setup quickly.

• source code into a root level src directory
• components to deploy into an artifacts directory
• permanent tools going into a tools directory
• using a file named default.ps1 as your primary build script
• asks if you want to use Psake or Cake Build
• using a bootstrapper to help with setting up and calling the task runner
• adds a .gitattributes file
• adds a .gitignore file (https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore)
• defaults to using Nuget Package Restore
• gets the latest version of Nuget and will update itself occasionally
• updates nuget occasionally
• creates a readme.md file

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