Commit cc78da97c for llama.cpp

commit cc78da97c0c7596dc821595f21b5644bbdc77df3
Author: Sigbjørn Skjæret <sigbjorn.skjaeret@huggingface.co>
Date:   Thu Nov 5 13:04:48 2026 +0100

    gguf-py : external chat templates have precedence over tokenizer_config (#31717)

diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/vocab.py b/gguf-py/gguf/vocab.py
index d299cfd00..e49a357df 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/vocab.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/vocab.py
@@ -352,21 +352,20 @@ class SpecialVocab:
                         continue
         if not tokenizer_config:
             return True
-        chat_template_alt = None
+        chat_template = tokenizer_config.get('chat_template')
         chat_template_json = path / 'chat_template.json'
         chat_template_jinja = path / 'chat_template.jinja'
         if chat_template_jinja.is_file():
             with open(chat_template_jinja, encoding = 'utf-8') as f:
-                chat_template_alt = f.read()
+                chat_template = f.read()
             if additional_templates := list((path / 'additional_chat_templates').glob('*.jinja')):
-                chat_template_alt = [{'name': 'default', 'template': chat_template_alt}]
+                chat_template = [{'name': 'default', 'template': chat_template}]
                 for template_path in additional_templates:
                     with open(template_path, encoding = 'utf-8') as fp:
-                        chat_template_alt.append({'name': template_path.stem, 'template': fp.read()})
+                        chat_template.append({'name': template_path.stem, 'template': fp.read()})
         elif chat_template_json.is_file():
             with open(chat_template_json, encoding = 'utf-8') as f:
-                chat_template_alt = json.load(f).get('chat_template')
-        chat_template = tokenizer_config.get('chat_template', chat_template_alt)
+                chat_template = json.load(f).get('chat_template')
         if chat_template is None or isinstance(chat_template, (str, list)):
             self.chat_template = chat_template
         else: