From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:33:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [External] Document ability to disable template directory in git-init
Message-ID: <boris.20250704123013@codesynthesis.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAG1j3zEiD341X-_ZdR2puaEmZZ0ZBWSmyboyyGZaDXcDTcmAeA@mail.gmail.com>

Han Young <hanyang.tony@bytedance.com> writes:

> Digging through the changelog, I think the feature is added in v1.5.6.4:
> 
>  "git init --template=" with blank "template" parameter linked files
>  under root directories to .git, which was a total nonsense.  Instead, it
>  means "I do not want to use anything from the template directory".

Thanks for digging this up. So in a sense this is an obscurely-
documented behavior that people could reasonably choose to rely
upon. I think only more reason to document this more prominently.