As suggested by @dokempf it would be nice to automatically generate this repo using the SSC cookiecutter-cpp-project
Todo: look into which cookiecutter options most closely reproduce the current repo.
Ideally this repo could be update automatically whenever the cookiecutter is updated:
- could do this from the cookiecutter CI
- probably need to add a token with suitable permissions to modify this repo from the CI there
- not really possible to do from CI here since there is currently no way to exclude files from a template repo