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1 | git-init-db(1) |
| 2 | ============== | |
| 3 | v0.1, May 2005 | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | NAME | |
| 6 | ---- | |
| 2c6e4771 | 7 | git-init-db - Creates an empty git repository |
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8 | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | SYNOPSIS | |
| 11 | -------- | |
| 12 | 'git-init-db' | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | DESCRIPTION | |
| 15 | ----------- | |
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16 | This simply creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory |
| 17 | and `.git/object/??/`, `.git/refs/heads` and `.git/refs/tags` directories, | |
| 18 | and links `.git/HEAD` symbolically to `.git/refs/heads/master`. | |
| 2cf565c5 | 19 | |
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20 | If the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set then it specifies a path |
| 21 | to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository. | |
| 22 | ||
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23 | If the object storage directory is specified via the 'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY' |
| 24 | environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath - | |
| 2c6e4771 | 25 | otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory is used. |
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26 | |
| 27 | "git-init-db" won't hurt an existing repository. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | ||
| 30 | Author | |
| 31 | ------ | |
| 32 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | Documentation | |
| 35 | -------------- | |
| 36 | Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | GIT | |
| 39 | --- | |
| a7154e91 | 40 | Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
| 2cf565c5 | 41 |