Merge branch 'jc/test-clone' into jc/clone

* jc/test-clone: (35 commits)
  Introduce GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR
  Revert "fix testsuite: make sure they use templates freshly built from the source"
  fix testsuite: make sure they use templates freshly built from the source
  rerere: fix breakage of resolving.
  Add config example with respect to branch
  Add documentation for show-branch --topics
  make git a bit less cryptic on fetch errors
  make patch_delta() error cases a bit more verbose
  racy-git: documentation updates.
  show-ref: fix --exclude-existing
  parse-remote::expand_refs_wildcard()
  vim syntax: follow recent changes to commit template
  show-ref: fix --verify --hash=length
  show-ref: fix --quiet --verify
  avoid accessing _all_ loose refs in git-show-ref --verify
  git-fetch: Avoid reading packed refs over and over again
  Teach show-branch how to show ref-log data.
  markup fix in svnimport documentation.
  Documentation: new option -P for git-svnimport
  Fix mis-mark-up in git-merge-file.txt documentation
  ...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-init-db.c b/builtin-init-db.c
index 1d7d15e8d5..c8ed5c2a0b 100644
--- a/builtin-init-db.c
+++ b/builtin-init-db.c
@@ -124,8 +124,11 @@ static void copy_templates(const char *git_dir, int len, const char *template_di
 	int template_len;
 	DIR *dir;
 
-	if (!template_dir)
-		template_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR;
+	if (!template_dir) {
+		template_dir = getenv("GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR");
+		if (!template_dir)
+			template_dir = DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR;
+	}
 	strcpy(template_path, template_dir);
 	template_len = strlen(template_path);
 	if (template_path[template_len-1] != '/') {