Subject: Re: Maintaining commit.template config through clones

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:12:20 +0200

Toby Corkindale schrieb:
> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Toby Corkindale schrieb:
>>> I'm attempting to implement Git at our company, and we currently use a
>>> commit template for CVS. I can convert this to a Git-formatted template,
>>> and set it for use with git-config commit.template ....
>>>
>>> However, once the repository is cloned, this configuration option
>>> vanishes from .git/config
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make configuration options sticky?
>>
>> Create or edit $prefix/share/git-core/templates/config.
> 
> Thanks.
> Will that keep the commit-template propagated even when the repo is
> cloned from another machine? (ie. using git: or ssh: methods)

No. You have to edit this file on each machine.

-- Hannes