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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git init with template dir
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:27:24 -0700
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Alex Cornejo <acornejo@gmail.com> writes:

> I was surprised to see that when using git-init, if the template folder
> is itself a symlink, then the contents of the template is NOT copied to
> the resulting git repository, but instead each individual file is
> symlinked.

Hmmm, I do not seem to be able to do this, though.

        $ ln -s $HOME/g/share/git-core/templates /var/tmp/git-template
        $ cd /var/tmp
	$ git init --template=/var/tmp/git-template new
        $ find new/.git -type l
        ... nothing ...

> For my particular use case, this is undesirable (since if I am not
> careful, then when I change the hook of one git repo, it
> actually changes the hooks of all other repos too). It is easy
> enough for me to work around this (i.e. by instead pointing my gitconfig
> to use a template dir which is not a symlink), but I was
> wondering weather this is a feature folks use (and for what end), or if
> this is unintended behavior.

That you had to predicate "this is undesireable" with "For my
particular use case" tells me that other people may want to see that
these things shared and automatically receive updates when the
originals in the temporate directory are updated, which makes it
sound like a "feature" not an "unintended behaviour", at least to
me.