git-init-db(1) Manual Page

NAME

git - init-db - Creates an empty git object database

SYNOPSIS

git-init-db

DESCRIPTION

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

Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Documentation

Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT

Part of the git(7) suite