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