Han Young <hanyang.tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Digging through the changelog, I think the feature is added in v1.5.6.4: > > "git init --template=" with blank "template" parameter linked files > under root directories to .git, which was a total nonsense. Instead, it > means "I do not want to use anything from the template directory". Thanks for digging this up. So in a sense this is an obscurely- documented behavior that people could reasonably choose to rely upon. I think only more reason to document this more prominently.