7 git-init-db - Creates an empty git object database
16 This simply creates an empty git object database - basically a `.git`
17 directory and `.git/object/??/` directories.
19 If the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set then it specifies a path
20 to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository.
22 If the object storage directory is specified via the 'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY'
23 environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath -
24 otherwise the default `.git/objects` directory is used.
26 "git-init-db" won't hurt an existing repository.
31 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
35 Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
39 Part of the link:git.html[git] suite