Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

1. Our template directory is ready, and we can use it, as described earlier, as a command-line option, an environment variable or, as in this example, to be set as a configuration:

$ git config --global init.templatedir ~/.git_template

2. Now, all Git repositories we create using init or clone will have the default files of the template directory. We can test whether it works by creating a new repository as follows:

$ git init template-example
$ cd template-example

3. Let's try to create a .txt file and see what git status tells us. It should be ignored by the exclude file from the template directory:

$ echo "this is the readme file" > README.txt
$ git status 

The exclude file worked! You can put in the file endings yourself, ...