1git-init-db(1) 2============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-init-db - Creates an empty git repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-init-db' 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15This simply creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory 16and `.git/object/??/`, `.git/refs/heads` and `.git/refs/tags` directories, 17and links `.git/HEAD` symbolically to `.git/refs/heads/master`. 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_DIR/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 gitlink:git[7] suite 40