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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: greg0ire <postmaster@greg0ire.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dotfiles in git template dir are not copied
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 15:44:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170217204411.2yixhuazgczxmmxa@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ebd661c3-7d99-54d2-dda9-09c4a76cfe93@greg0ire.fr>

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:31:37AM +0100, greg0ire wrote:

> I noticed yesterday that dotfiles inside the directory configured in
> init.templatedir are not copied when creating a new repository.
> 
> Here is the line I think is responsible for this behavior :
> https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/init-db.c#L48
> 
> Is it a bug or a feature?

I think it's probably a feature. You could, for example, have your
template directory itself be a git repository. You would not want to
copy the ".git" directory around.

I wouldn't be surprised if the documentation could be improved, though.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-17 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-17  9:31 dotfiles in git template dir are not copied greg0ire
2017-02-17 20:44 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-02-17 21:42   ` Grégoire PARIS
2017-02-17 22:12     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-17 22:37       ` Grégoire PARIS
2017-02-17 22:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-17 23:39           ` Grégoire PARIS
2017-02-17 22:39     ` Philip Oakley
2017-02-17 22:49       ` Grégoire PARIS
2017-02-17 22:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-17 23:22       ` Grégoire PARIS
2017-02-17 23:30         ` Grégoire PARIS

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