SYNOPSIS
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-'git-init-db' [--template=<template_directory>]
-
-
-OPTIONS
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---template=<template_directory>::
- Provide the directory in from which templates will be used.
+'git-init-db' [--template=<template_directory>] [--shared[=<permissions>]]
DESCRIPTION
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-This simply creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory
-and `.git/object/??/`, `.git/refs/heads` and `.git/refs/tags` directories,
-and links `.git/HEAD` symbolically to `.git/refs/heads/master`.
-
-If the `$GIT_DIR` environment variable is set then it specifies a path
-to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository.
-
-If the object storage directory is specified via the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY`
-environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath -
-otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory is used.
-
-`git-init-db` won't hurt an existing repository.
-
-
-EXAMPLES
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-
-Start a new git repository for an existing code base::
-+
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-$ cd /path/to/my/codebase
-$ git-init-db
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-Author
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-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+This is a synonym for gitlink:git-init[1]. Please refer to the
+documentation of that command.