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 404 <div id="header">
 405 <h1>
 406 git-init(1) Manual Page
 407 </h1>
 408 <h2>NAME</h2>
 409 <div class="sectionbody">
 410 <p>git-init -
 411    Create an empty git repository or reinitialize an existing one
 412 </p>
 413 </div>
 414 </div>
 415 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 416 <div class="sectionbody">
 417 <div class="paragraph"><p><em>git init</em> [-q | --quiet] [--bare] [--template=&lt;template_directory&gt;]
 418           [--separate-git-dir|-L &lt;git dir&gt;]
 419           [--shared[=&lt;permissions&gt;]] [directory]</p></div>
 420 </div>
 421 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 422 <div class="sectionbody">
 423 <div class="paragraph"><p>This command creates an empty git repository - basically a <tt>.git</tt>
 424 directory with subdirectories for <tt>objects</tt>, <tt>refs/heads</tt>,
 425 <tt>refs/tags</tt>, and template files.  An initial <tt>HEAD</tt> file that
 426 references the HEAD of the master branch is also created.</p></div>
 427 <div class="paragraph"><p>If the <tt>$GIT_DIR</tt> environment variable is set then it specifies a path
 428 to use instead of <tt>./.git</tt> for the base of the repository.</p></div>
 429 <div class="paragraph"><p>If the object storage directory is specified via the
 430 <tt>$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY</tt> environment variable then the sha1 directories
 431 are created underneath - otherwise the default <tt>$GIT_DIR/objects</tt>
 432 directory is used.</p></div>
 433 <div class="paragraph"><p>Running <em>git init</em> in an existing repository is safe. It will not
 434 overwrite things that are already there. The primary reason for
 435 rerunning <em>git init</em> is to pick up newly added templates (or to move
 436 the repository to another place if --separate-git-dir is given).</p></div>
 437 </div>
 438 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 439 <div class="sectionbody">
 440 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 441 <dt class="hdlist1">
 442 -q
 443 </dt>
 444 <dt class="hdlist1">
 445 --quiet
 446 </dt>
 447 <dd>
 448 <p>
 449 Only print error and warning messages, all other output will be suppressed.
 450 </p>
 451 </dd>
 452 <dt class="hdlist1">
 453 --bare
 454 </dt>
 455 <dd>
 456 <p>
 457 Create a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the
 458 current working directory.
 459 </p>
 460 </dd>
 461 <dt class="hdlist1">
 462 --template=&lt;template_directory&gt;
 463 </dt>
 464 <dd>
 465 <p>
 466 Specify the directory from which templates will be used.  (See the "TEMPLATE
 467 DIRECTORY" section below.)
 468 </p>
 469 </dd>
 470 <dt class="hdlist1">
 471 -L=&lt;git dir&gt;
 472 </dt>
 473 <dt class="hdlist1">
 474 --separate-git-dir=&lt;git dir&gt;
 475 </dt>
 476 <dd>
 477 <p>
 478 Instead of initializing the repository where it is supposed to be,
 479 place a filesytem-agnostic git symbolic link there, pointing to the
 480 specified git path, and initialize a git repository at the path. The
 481 result is git repository can be separated from working tree. If this
 482 is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified
 483 path.
 484 </p>
 485 </dd>
 486 <dt class="hdlist1">
 487 --shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|0xxx)]
 488 </dt>
 489 <dd>
 490 <p>
 491 Specify that the git repository is to be shared amongst several users.  This
 492 allows users belonging to the same group to push into that
 493 repository.  When specified, the config variable "core.sharedRepository" is
 494 set so that files and directories under <tt>$GIT_DIR</tt> are created with the
 495 requested permissions.  When not specified, git will use permissions reported
 496 by umask(2).
 497 </p>
 498 </dd>
 499 </dl></div>
 500 <div class="paragraph"><p>The option can have the following values, defaulting to <em>group</em> if no value
 501 is given:</p></div>
 502 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 503 <li>
 504 <p>
 505 <em>umask</em> (or <em>false</em>): Use permissions reported by umask(2). The default,
 506    when <tt>--shared</tt> is not specified.
 507 </p>
 508 </li>
 509 <li>
 510 <p>
 511 <em>group</em> (or <em>true</em>): Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since
 512    the git group may be not the primary group of all users).
 513    This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value.
 514    Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if
 515    umask is <em>0022</em>, using <em>group</em> will not remove read privileges from other
 516    (non-group) users). See <em>0xxx</em> for how to exactly specify the repository
 517    permissions.
 518 </p>
 519 </li>
 520 <li>
 521 <p>
 522 <em>all</em> (or <em>world</em> or <em>everybody</em>): Same as <em>group</em>, but make the repository
 523    readable by all users.
 524 </p>
 525 </li>
 526 <li>
 527 <p>
 528 <em>0xxx</em>: <em>0xxx</em> is an octal number and each file will have mode <em>0xxx</em>.
 529    <em>0xxx</em> will override users' umask(2) value (and not only loosen permissions
 530    as <em>group</em> and <em>all</em> does). <em>0640</em> will create a repository which is
 531    group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others. <em>0660</em> will
 532    create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group,
 533    but inaccessible to others.
 534 </p>
 535 </li>
 536 </ul></div>
 537 <div class="paragraph"><p>By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled
 538 in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push
 539 into it.</p></div>
 540 <div class="paragraph"><p>If you name a (possibly non-existent) directory at the end of the command
 541 line, the command is run inside the directory (possibly after creating it).</p></div>
 542 </div>
 543 <h2 id="_template_directory">TEMPLATE DIRECTORY</h2>
 544 <div class="sectionbody">
 545 <div class="paragraph"><p>The template directory contains files and directories that will be copied to
 546 the <tt>$GIT_DIR</tt> after it is created.</p></div>
 547 <div class="paragraph"><p>The template directory used will (in order):</p></div>
 548 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 549 <li>
 550 <p>
 551 The argument given with the <tt>--template</tt> option.
 552 </p>
 553 </li>
 554 <li>
 555 <p>
 556 The contents of the <tt>$GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR</tt> environment variable.
 557 </p>
 558 </li>
 559 <li>
 560 <p>
 561 The <tt>init.templatedir</tt> configuration variable.
 562 </p>
 563 </li>
 564 <li>
 565 <p>
 566 The default template directory: <tt>/usr/share/git-core/templates</tt>.
 567 </p>
 568 </li>
 569 </ul></div>
 570 <div class="paragraph"><p>The default template directory includes some directory structure, some
 571 suggested "exclude patterns", and copies of sample "hook" files.
 572 The suggested patterns and hook files are all modifiable and extensible.</p></div>
 573 </div>
 574 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
 575 <div class="sectionbody">
 576 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 577 <dt class="hdlist1">
 578 Start a new git repository for an existing code base
 579 </dt>
 580 <dd>
 581 <div class="listingblock">
 582 <div class="content">
 583 <pre><tt>$ cd /path/to/my/codebase
 584 $ git init      <b>&lt;1&gt;</b>
 585 $ git add .     <b>&lt;2&gt;</b></tt></pre>
 586 </div></div>
 587 <div class="colist arabic"><ol>
 588 <li>
 589 <p>
 590 prepare /path/to/my/codebase/.git directory
 591 </p>
 592 </li>
 593 <li>
 594 <p>
 595 add all existing file to the index
 596 </p>
 597 </li>
 598 </ol></div>
 599 </dd>
 600 </dl></div>
 601 </div>
 602 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 603 <div class="sectionbody">
 604 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
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