From: Grégoire PARIS <postmaster@greg0ire.fr>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:37:24 GMT
Subject: Re: dotfiles in git template dir are not copied
Message-ID: <9894f34a-d362-7741-b5b8-3743fe8f4e0b@greg0ire.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmvdkqxfd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

 > I do not think we should change the behaviour
 > to copy files whose names begin with a dot.

So bug turned feature it is :)

I amended my commit message accordingly.

In my case, my template dir is not at the root of the repository where 
it is versioned, so it would not be a problem for me, but I think some 
people might use this feature to add tests/docs without having them copied.

my template dir repository : https://github.com/greg0ire/git_template