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config file not being copied from templates folder

Subject: config file not being copied from templates folder

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2 messages between May 9, 2019 and May 10, 2019.

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Jack Zylkin· May 9, 2019, 18:45 UTC · lore
The “git init” documentation for the “Template Directory” states that:

“Files and directories in the template directory whose name do not start with a dot will be copied to the $GIT_DIR after it is created.”

However, I put a file called “config” in this directory, and it was not copied to the .git directory after running “git init”. Instead there is always the same old default config file there (and I don’t know where this file comes from).

I don’t know any other way of changing the default local config file used for new repos. I really want to change this default config file because I want to use “symlinks=true” in all new repos, regardless of what git was told to do about symlinks when it was installed.

(In my case, the chocolatey installer that installs git seems to disable symlinks no matter what).

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Jack Zylkin
Duy Nguyen· May 10, 2019, 10:29 UTC · re: Jack Zylkin · lore

Re: config file not being copied from templates folder

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:07 AM Jack Zylkin <jzylkin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The “git init” documentation for the “Template Directory” states that:
>
>
> “Files and directories in the template directory whose name do not
> start with a dot will be copied to the $GIT_DIR after it is created.”
>
>
> However, I put a file called “config” in this directory, and it was
> not copied to the .git directory after running “git init”.  Instead
> there is always the same old default config file there (and I don’t
> know where this file comes from).
What version are you using? Seems to work for me.
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> I don’t know any other way of changing the default local config file
> used for new repos.  I really want to change this default config file
> because I want to use “symlinks=true” in all new repos, regardless of
> what git was told to do about symlinks when it was installed.
>
>
> (In my case, the chocolatey installer that installs git seems to
> disable symlinks no matter what).
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Duy

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