diff --git a/git_template/description b/git_template/description
deleted file mode 100644
index 498b267..0000000
--- a/git_template/description
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the repository.
diff --git a/git_template/hooks/ctags b/git_template/hooks/ctags
deleted file mode 100755
index 8d6a243..0000000
--- a/git_template/hooks/ctags
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-dir="$(git rev-parse --git-dir)"
-trap 'rm -f "$dir/$$.tags"' EXIT
-git ls-files | "${CTAGS:-ctags}" --tag-relative -L - -f "$dir/$$.tags"
-mv "$dir/$$.tags" "$dir/tags"
diff --git a/git_template/hooks/post-checkout b/git_template/hooks/post-checkout
deleted file mode 100755
index 4c7f6cc..0000000
--- a/git_template/hooks/post-checkout
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-.git/hooks/ctags >/dev/null 2>&1 &
diff --git a/git_template/hooks/post-commit b/git_template/hooks/post-commit
deleted file mode 100755
index 4c7f6cc..0000000
--- a/git_template/hooks/post-commit
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-.git/hooks/ctags >/dev/null 2>&1 &
diff --git a/git_template/hooks/post-merge b/git_template/hooks/post-merge
deleted file mode 100755
index 4c7f6cc..0000000
--- a/git_template/hooks/post-merge
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-.git/hooks/ctags >/dev/null 2>&1 &
diff --git a/git_template/info/exclude b/git_template/info/exclude
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index a5196d1..0000000
--- a/git_template/info/exclude
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-# git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude
-# Lines that start with '#' are comments.
-# For a project mostly in C, the following would be a good set of
-# exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them):
-# *.[oa]
-# *~
diff --git a/gitconfig b/gitconfig
index 0a50201..d55d680 100644
--- a/gitconfig
+++ b/gitconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[init]
-    templatedir = ~/.git_template
-
 [alias]
     a       = add
     aa      = add --all