From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from codesynthesis.com (codesynthesis.com [188.40.148.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD7572EE97A for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2025 10:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=188.40.148.39 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1751625222; cv=none; b=ZHt7RIfvTC9S6ZtvsfBn3Ee46sWVNsbaO75lpIrcQUp4vlq9cd6RsxlVEgBPZ5Z0yf+ZiwCxuwvMzUdZxP984KI/iuQNiIkIyT44wvOLT+hzTcrVjEXKSyhvA4FlaZFTtrIp9+gkTywEBY1UJyIdGs5lxD19YIb3LwPz5qXF2gs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1751625222; c=relaxed/simple; bh=uFDp/9T5F6LIY5MZeeQxgHlgEXPa6kKqS5XuaVMn1Co=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=CRD5mKUM17xHRA+/v41Y1XTj34t++xrTrFQKiA4OSQ9mEWeyC3wm+pdmL7tF6d1XH2jhOIwYF3CZc8ldPgqM5mJwfvVsdX6wMyPCbKoiQI/qL3wEYsSzwhW8m3VagfYdVmRwUbkNlLk0fR/ofh37XADDZ/SYNlL1O4iPxovjQeA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codesynthesis.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=codesynthesis.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=codesynthesis.com header.i=@codesynthesis.com header.b=PA4Qnrx2; arc=none smtp.client-ip=188.40.148.39 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codesynthesis.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=codesynthesis.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=codesynthesis.com header.i=@codesynthesis.com header.b="PA4Qnrx2" Received: from brak.codesynthesis.com (unknown [105.184.106.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by codesynthesis.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8ACE55E65E; Fri, 4 Jul 2025 10:33:35 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=codesynthesis.com; s=mail1; t=1751625215; bh=uFDp/9T5F6LIY5MZeeQxgHlgEXPa6kKqS5XuaVMn1Co=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version:From; b=PA4Qnrx26RJ9Vl7asJOPEBSWlUy0WD+RC7Ova93e8zmg562ssE4MOTeiz6ScVz5au l3zYiOY0xO6dESPk4/5kF404VSjJH91Mao5KsuyqtPPtaUZ94NkA+KiJ1ge2NJxtLy 6OFqElDyAUOYLpdNBR4Zynxuo2ttTJvgqMEPGa/hJCsijO6Tm+iB9W07kfjyifOXx/ gZq5kG4oRUy/mam92v6xHfoTCNEoui/7cPj9bvOH1kZC6Ec4EkBTDcaASsWcmyv5NO cwDAKewuypwK9AMiCbl2h4uxdpClFAcchz8IDlbL0G4R2jOgH9yhqnTqiM77T5tCJ9 P4K19FsCj4nzQ== Received: by brak.codesynthesis.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 50E221429C5; Fri, 4 Jul 2025 12:33:31 +0200 (SAST) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 12:33:31 +0200 From: Boris Kolpackov To: Han Young Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, karen@codesynthesis.com Subject: Re: [External] Document ability to disable template directory in git-init Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Code Synthesis Han Young writes: > Digging through the changelog, I think the feature is added in v1.5.6.4: > > "git init --template=" with blank "template" parameter linked files > under root directories to .git, which was a total nonsense. Instead, it > means "I do not want to use anything from the template directory". Thanks for digging this up. So in a sense this is an obscurely- documented behavior that people could reasonably choose to rely upon. I think only more reason to document this more prominently.