From: Grégoire Paris Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 23:37:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: init: document dotfiles exclusion on template copy X-Git-Tag: v2.12.0~4^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/133f0a299da937d0a77a19a274c7730b2af5bf9c init: document dotfiles exclusion on template copy Not just . and .., but any path that begins with dot is not copied when copying the template directory to a new repository. You can customize the template directory, copying some dotfiles might make sense, but it's actually a good thing not to, because you would not want to have your git directory copied in every git directory that is created should you decide to put your template directory under version control, for example. Plus, it might be used as a feature by people who would want to exclude some files. Signed-off-by: Grégoire Paris Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-init.txt b/Documentation/git-init.txt index 9d27197de8..3c5a67fb96 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init.txt @@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ does not exist, it will be created. TEMPLATE DIRECTORY ------------------ -The template directory contains files and directories that will be copied to -the `$GIT_DIR` after it is created. +Files and directories in the template directory whose name do not start with a +dot will be copied to the `$GIT_DIR` after it is created. The template directory will be one of the following (in order):