Support or allow support for GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR
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Description
Git has an environment variable called GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR that it uses to customise the behaviour of git init. It would appear that neither libgit2 nor git2-rs support this. See the downstream issues in cargo for more info, history/motivation and reproductions:
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked Cargo issues for the expected GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR behavior, history, and reproductions. Then trace how git2-rs exposes git init and determine where template-directory support belongs. Done means the binding supports the requested behavior and reproduces the relevant Cargo cases.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100