Junio C Hamano wrote: ...
If the template files are to become something that always have to exist, /etc first and then falling back on /usr/share would make a lot of sense. But as Johannes Schindelin correctly argued against the "Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well." patch [*2*], I think git-init-db should work when there is no template directory. In other words, its primary purpose is to help local project administrators ensure newly created repositories have hooks and probably info/exclude that they recommend to the project members.
So templates are project specific.
The reason to have a sample one shipped as part of the core package is just to help newbies --- they would get a boilerplate hooks/update that explains how they can set it up when they do git-init-db even when they do not have their own customized set of templates yet. For this kind of use, I do not think one default falling back to another is needed.
Shipping samples with the plumbing makes sense, especially when the documentation in is insufficient. But installing the samples as part of the default install process seems less than desirable. Or, alternately, install the samples in with the documentation as (non-executable) examples.
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*1* This would probably break Linus, myself and others --- everybody has to say "make prefix=$HOME", so I do not think I am actually going to do it any time soon, if ever. Having prefix=/usr/local as default only helps people who are installing system-wide from the source, and nobody else. People who are writing spec.in and/or debian/rules need to override it to prefix=/usr anyway, and it forces people who are installing to their home to say prefix=$HOME/. I suspect it is an inertia from the good old days when nobody used binary distributions.
Rather than changing the default install location in such a way as to make half the user unhappy, make everybody (un)happy by removing the default and forcing it to be specified when make is executed.
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