Re: git init with template dir

From: Alex Cornejo <acornejo@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 12, 2015, 15:59 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20150612T175402-182@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqioatdk0z.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com> writes:

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> Hmmm, I do not seem to be able to do this, though.
> 
>         $ ln -s $HOME/g/share/git-core/templates /var/tmp/git-template
>         $ cd /var/tmp
> 	$ git init --template=/var/tmp/git-template new
>         $ find new/.git -type l
>         ... nothing ...

Thanks for your prompt response Juno.

That make sense. The fact that you were unable to reproduce this tells me that there is probably something fishy/unexpected with the environment in which I tried this (which is not too surprising, given that I was doing it inside a linux container, inside a virtual machine, where both of these were setup using a scripts which ultimately failed after the git init step, due to the symlink behavior I described, but most likely this is my own fault). I should have tried to reproduce this on a clean slate before posting this question.

Thanks again,

Alex