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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add post-init hook
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2008/10/9 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:16:56AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
>> ...
>>> I want symlinks so I only have to edit my hooks in one place whenever
>>> I change them)
>>
>> This makes a lot of sense to me as a best-practice. I wonder if we
>> wouldn't do better to add a core.symlink-templates option?
>
> AFAIR, "git init" copies symlinks in templates as symlinks, so I do not
> see why you would even want to have such an option.
>
> Wouldn't it be better if users and installations with such a special
> set of templates specified by core.template or --template prepare a
> template directory with files and symbolic links of their liking?  If
> they want some hooks to point at the latest copy of installation specific
> standard hook script, templates/hooks/$that_hook can be a symlink to the
> real location, no?

It will be replaced with a file next time you update your git installation.
Seems like we need ~/.gitconfig/*...