From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:05:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Always copy template files (no symlinking)
Message-ID: <7vprshyg5e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080422140359.GA9590@roadkill.foldr.org>

Michael Weber <michaelw@foldr.org> writes:

> Previously, git would readlink(2) template files that are symlinks,
> and then symlink(2) the result into .git/.  This does not work for
> relative symlinks (as produced by, e.g., encap), and is probably not a
> good idea either: it is an irrelevant detail that a file in the
> template directory is symlinked.

This was very deliberately done to allow a relative symlink that points at
e.g. ../../hooks/pre-commit with .git/hooks/pre-commit.  IOW, "use what
the project suggests".