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Re: dotfiles in git template dir are not copied

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 17, 2017, 22:44 UTC
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Grégoire PARIS <postmaster@greg0ire.fr> writes:
>> I do not think we should change the behaviour
>> to copy files whose names begin with a dot.
>
> So bug turned feature it is :)
There was no 'bug' either.  It's just the way it is ;-)
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