6 git-init-db - Creates an empty git repository
11 'git-init-db' [--template=<template_directory>]
16 --template=<template_directory>::
17 Provide the directory in from which templates will be used.
22 This simply creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory
23 and `.git/object/??/`, `.git/refs/heads` and `.git/refs/tags` directories,
24 and links `.git/HEAD` symbolically to `.git/refs/heads/master`.
26 If the `$GIT_DIR` environment variable is set then it specifies a path
27 to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository.
29 If the object storage directory is specified via the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY`
30 environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath -
31 otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory is used.
33 `git-init-db` won't hurt an existing repository.
39 Start a new git repository for an existing code base::
42 $ cd /path/to/my/codebase
46 <1> prepare /path/to/my/codebase/.git directory
47 <2> add all existing file to the index
53 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
57 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
61 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite