Makefile: simplify building of templates

2024-12-06T22:52:12Z

When we install Git we also install a set of default templates that both git-init(1) and git-clone(1) populate into our build directories. The way the pristine templates are laid out in our source directory is somewhat weird though: instead of reconstructing the actual directory hierarchy in "templates/", we represent directory separators with "--". The only reason I could come up with for why we have this is the "branches/" directory, which is supposed to be empty when installing it. And as Git famously doesn't store empty directories at all we have to work around this limitation. Now the thing is that the "branches/" directory is a leftover to how branches used to be stored in the dark ages. gitrepository-layout(5) lists this directory as "slightly deprecated", which I would claim is a strong understatement. I have never encountered anybody using it today and would be surprised if it even works as expected. So having the "--" hack in place for an item that is basically unused, unmaintained and deprecated doesn't only feel unreasonable, but installing that entry by default may also cause confusion for users that do not know what this is supposed to be in the first place. Remove this directory from our templates and, now that we do not require the workaround anymore, restructure the templates to form a proper hierarchy. This makes it way easier for build systems to install these templates into place. We should likely think about removing support for "branch/" altogether, but that is outside of the scope of this patch series. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Modernize git calling conventions in hook templates

2010-03-20T16:04:38Z

The hook templates were still using/referencing 'git-foo' instead of 'git foo.' This patch updates the sample hooks to use the modern conventions instead. Signed-off-by: Ben Walton Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix

2008-06-25T02:06:22Z

We used to mark hooks we ship as samples by making them unexecutable, but some filesystems cannot tell what is executable and what is not. This makes it much more explicit. The hooks are suffixed with .sample (but now are made executable), so enabling it is still one step operation (instead of "chmod +x $hook", you would do "mv $hook.sample $hook") but now they won't get accidentally enabled on systems without executable bit. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

git/templates/hooks--commit-msg.sample, branch main

Makefile: simplify building of templates

Modernize git calling conventions in hook templates

Ship sample hooks with .sample suffix