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