After using uv init in a project directory, uv creates these files:

.git
README.md
pyproject.toml
hello.py
.python-version
.gitignore

I don't want it to generate hello.py. I want the others, but hello.py is unusable, and I delete it every time I initialize a new environment.
I read the uv help manual and searched, but couldn't find my answer.

How can I prevent this command from generating hello.py?

After using uv init in a project directory, uv creates these files:

.git
README.md
pyproject.toml
hello.py
.python-version
.gitignore

I don't want it to generate hello.py. I want the others, but hello.py is unusable, and I delete it every time I initialize a new environment.
I read the uv help manual and searched, but couldn't find my answer.

How can I prevent this command from generating hello.py?

• python
• package-managers
• uv

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There's no native support for this exact use case. v0.5.29 introduced the --bare option, which will only create pyproject.toml, but it won't work if you want to keep the other boilerplate files.

If you use Bash, you can add this alias for convenience (in pre-0.6.0 versions, replace main.py with hello.py):

alias cleanuv="uv init && rm main.py"

Then just use cleanuv instead of uv init whenever you want to start a new project.