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git-init-db(1)
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NAME
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git-init-db - Creates an empty git repository
 
 
SYNOPSIS
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'git-init-db'
 
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.
 
 
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