Template files location

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Aug 5, 2005, 09:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20050805094324.GF29216@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5otov7s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 06:37:11AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> We install files in $(HOME)/etc/git-core/templates/ directory.
> 
> In the standard binary distribution scheme, it should probably
> go to either /usr/share or /etc; the former if the distribution
> prefers static boilerplate files in /usr/share, latter if we
> consider them site-specific conffiles.  I just discussed this
> privately with a Debian person on the list today, and we are in
> favor of installing it under /usr/share/git-core/templates,
> because we do not expect the contents of the standard templates
> directory will not be a per-site customization [*1*].
> 
> In any case, this means that the make drivers like spec.in and
> debian/rules would need to override some make variables when
> they invoke the main Makefile.

Any reason why that's not the default destination then?

Or you can try /etc/git-core/ and fall back to /usr/share/git-core :-)

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