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