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1 | git-init-db(1) |
| 2 | ============== | |
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3 | |
| 4 | NAME | |
| 5 | ---- | |
| 2c6e4771 | 6 | git-init-db - Creates an empty git repository |
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7 | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | SYNOPSIS | |
| 10 | -------- | |
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11 | 'git-init-db' [--template=<template_directory>] |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | ||
| 14 | OPTIONS | |
| 15 | ------- | |
| 16 | --template=<template_directory>:: | |
| 17 | Provide the directory in from which templates will be used. | |
| 18 | ||
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19 | |
| 20 | DESCRIPTION | |
| 21 | ----------- | |
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22 | This simply creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory |
| 23 | and `.git/object/??/`, `.git/refs/heads` and `.git/refs/tags` directories, | |
| 24 | and links `.git/HEAD` symbolically to `.git/refs/heads/master`. | |
| 2cf565c5 | 25 | |
| 61f693bd | 26 | If the `$GIT_DIR` environment variable is set then it specifies a path |
| c1bdacf9 DG |
27 | to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository. |
| 28 | ||
| 61f693bd | 29 | If the object storage directory is specified via the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY` |
| 2cf565c5 | 30 | environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath - |
| 2c6e4771 | 31 | otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory is used. |
| 2cf565c5 | 32 | |
| 61f693bd JL |
33 | `git-init-db` won't hurt an existing repository. |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | ||
| 36 | EXAMPLES | |
| 37 | -------- | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | Start a new git repository for an existing code base:: | |
| 40 | + | |
| 41 | ---------------- | |
| 42 | $ cd /path/to/my/codebase | |
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43 | $ git-init-db <1> |
| 44 | $ git-add . <2> | |
| 61f693bd | 45 | |
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46 | <1> prepare /path/to/my/codebase/.git directory |
| 47 | <2> add all existing file to the index | |
| 48 | ---------------- | |
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49 | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | Author | |
| 52 | ------ | |
| 53 | Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | Documentation | |
| 56 | -------------- | |
| 57 | Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | GIT | |
| 60 | --- | |
| a7154e91 | 61 | Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite |
| 2cf565c5 | 62 |