From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:24:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add post-init hook
Message-ID: <7viqs2ovte.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081009014146.GA14204@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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?