From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:56:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Enhance git init with Language-Specific Templates
Message-ID: <xmqqsenrjaka.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CABEd3j-36C_LUOetg0qLofrby9M1Hixkh4o7sQkkyyWuTqHQvQ@mail.gmail.com>

Oleg Taranenko <olegtaranenko@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 at 23:53, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't have thrown objects in the --template directory, and I
>> wouldn't count on things outside what the mechanism was invented for
>> (namely, .git/hooks and possibly .git/info/ files) would forever be
>> copied in newer versions of Git, but certainly "git init --template"
>> mechanism sounds like a good escape hatch than mucking with Git code
>> base to teach it myriad of languages and their dialects.
>
> It sounds like creating a copy of the .gitignore structure requires
> the user to learn bash script syntax. :-D I'd like to suggest adding
> one more option to the init --template <template/dir>
> --only-gitignores. It will not deal with all the complicated mechanics
> behind hooks/etc, and will only look at the template folder structure
> and copy **/.gitignore into the newly created worktree. In case of
> existing .gitignore files, just put warnings and do not override
> those.

I was referring to .git/info because of the .git/info/excludes file.