From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: does a new repo actually *need* default template content?
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 03:06:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180601070609.GC15578@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8mr7jgj.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 07:56:12PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 28 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > (apologies for more pedantic nitpickery, just little things i'm
> > running across in my travels. aside: i actually teach git courses, so
> > it's a bit embarrassing that i don't know some of this stuff. *sigh*.)
>
> Aside from maybe the empty branches/ directory (see c8a58ac5a5 ("Revert
> "Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches directory on init"", 2009-10-31)),
> none of this is needed.
>
> I wish we didn't create any of this stuff, but have never been inclined
> to make that my hill to die on.
>
> I think we're much better off just shipping e.g. a single README file in
> hooks/, or just nothing at all.
FWIW, that's my opinion, too (including the "hill to die on" part).
I also wish hooks were just shell snippets in the config files that
could follow the usual config-precedence rules.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-01 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-28 13:00 does a new repo actually *need* default template content? Robert P. J. Day
2018-05-28 17:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 7:06 ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-06-01 14:38 ` Santiago Torres
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