Upgrading from 2.x.x to 3.x.x
Changing the template directory
There is just a little change between 2 and 3, it is the location of the template
directory. It is no longer the root in the project, but a sub-directory named…
template. Why this change ? Because even if the update script can ignore the
documentation, the tests and itself, git clone and git init do not. It means
each time you create a new repository, and each time you clone a repository, while
using Git Template 2.x.x, git will copy files that are part of the project but
that are not part of the template itself.
To change that, upgrade to 3.x.x, and adjust your init.templatedir variable:
git config --global init.templatedir '~/.git_template/template'
And remote the old hooks directory tree (it should contain no file at all)
rm -rf ~/.git_template/hooks
After that you will be able to safely run the update script from any project you have.
Cleaning up repositories
If you do not like the mess I have created in your repositories, please:
- accept my sincerest apologies
- run the cleanup script I wrote:
/path/to/.git_template/cleanup-2-x-x-mess.shfrom the root of each repository you want to clean.