| git-init-db(1) | |
| ============== | |
| v0.1, May 2005 | |
| NAME | |
| ---- | |
| git-init-db - Creates an empty git repository | |
| SYNOPSIS | |
| -------- | |
| 'git-init-db' | |
| DESCRIPTION | |
| ----------- | |
| This simply creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory | |
| and `.git/object/??/`, `.git/refs/heads` and `.git/refs/tags` directories, | |
| and links `.git/HEAD` symbolically to `.git/refs/heads/master`. | |
| If the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set then it specifies a path | |
| to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository. | |
| If the object storage directory is specified via the 'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY' | |
| environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath - | |
| otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory is used. | |
| "git-init-db" won't hurt an existing repository. | |
| Author | |
| ------ | |
| Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
| Documentation | |
| -------------- | |
| Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| GIT | |
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| Part of the link:git.html[git] suite | |