On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:31:37AM +0100, greg0ire wrote: > I noticed yesterday that dotfiles inside the directory configured in > init.templatedir are not copied when creating a new repository. > > Here is the line I think is responsible for this behavior : > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/builtin/init-db.c#L48 > > Is it a bug or a feature? I think it's probably a feature. You could, for example, have your template directory itself be a git repository. You would not want to copy the ".git" directory around. I wouldn't be surprised if the documentation could be improved, though. -Peff