From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:34:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add post-init hook
Message-ID: <81b0412b0810090434x41d11f18s4fd7a15d812b3ba3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7viqs2ovte.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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/*...