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-rw-r--r--builtin-init-db.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-init-db.c b/builtin-init-db.c
index 763fa55e76..e1393b8d1e 100644
--- a/builtin-init-db.c
+++ b/builtin-init-db.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
*/
#include "cache.h"
#include "builtin.h"
+#include "exec_cmd.h"
#ifndef DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR
#define DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR "/usr/share/git-core/templates"
@@ -131,10 +132,19 @@ static void copy_templates(const char *git_dir, int len, const char *template_di
int template_len;
DIR *dir;
- if (!template_dir) {
+ if (!template_dir)
template_dir = getenv(TEMPLATE_DIR_ENVIRONMENT);
- if (!template_dir)
- template_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR;
+ if (!template_dir) {
+ /*
+ * if the hard-coded template is relative, it is
+ * interpreted relative to the exec_dir
+ */
+ template_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR;
+ if (!is_absolute_path(template_dir)) {
+ const char *exec_path = git_exec_path();
+ template_dir = prefix_path(exec_path, strlen(exec_path),
+ template_dir);
+ }
}
strcpy(template_path, template_dir);
template_len = strlen(template_path);