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git-init-db(1)
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v0.1, May 2005
NAME
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git-init-db - Creates an empty git object database
SYNOPSIS
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'git-init-db'
DESCRIPTION
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This simply creates an empty git object database - basically a `.git`
directory and `.git/object/??/` directories.
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/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 link:git.html[git] suite