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