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406 git-init(
1) Manual Page
409 <div class=
"sectionbody">
411 Create an empty git repository or reinitialize an existing one
415 <h2 id=
"_synopsis">SYNOPSIS
</h2>
416 <div class=
"sectionbody">
417 <div class=
"paragraph"><p><em>git init
</em> [-q | --quiet] [--bare] [--template=
<template_directory
>] [--shared[=
<permissions
>]] [directory]
</p></div>
419 <h2 id=
"_options">OPTIONS
</h2>
420 <div class=
"sectionbody">
421 <div class=
"dlist"><dl>
430 Only print error and warning messages, all other output will be suppressed.
438 Create a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the
439 current working directory.
443 --template=
<template_directory
>
447 Specify the directory from which templates will be used. (See the
"TEMPLATE
448 DIRECTORY" section below.)
452 --shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|
0xxx)]
456 Specify that the git repository is to be shared amongst several users. This
457 allows users belonging to the same group to push into that
458 repository. When specified, the config variable
"core.sharedRepository" is
459 set so that files and directories under
<tt>$GIT_DIR
</tt> are created with the
460 requested permissions. When not specified, git will use permissions reported
465 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The option can have the following values, defaulting to
<em>group
</em> if no value
467 <div class=
"ulist"><ul>
470 <em>umask
</em> (or
<em>false
</em>): Use permissions reported by umask(
2). The default,
471 when
<tt>--shared
</tt> is not specified.
476 <em>group
</em> (or
<em>true
</em>): Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx, since
477 the git group may be not the primary group of all users).
478 This is used to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(
2) value.
479 Note that the umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if
480 umask is
<em>0022</em>, using
<em>group
</em> will not remove read privileges from other
481 (non-group) users). See
<em>0xxx
</em> for how to exactly specify the repository
487 <em>all
</em> (or
<em>world
</em> or
<em>everybody
</em>): Same as
<em>group
</em>, but make the repository
488 readable by all users.
493 <em>0xxx
</em>:
<em>0xxx
</em> is an octal number and each file will have mode
<em>0xxx
</em>.
494 <em>0xxx
</em> will override users' umask(
2) value (and not only loosen permissions
495 as
<em>group
</em> and
<em>all
</em> does).
<em>0640</em> will create a repository which is
496 group-readable, but not group-writable or accessible to others.
<em>0660</em> will
497 create a repo that is readable and writable to the current user and group,
498 but inaccessible to others.
502 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is enabled
503 in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non fast-forwarding push
505 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If you name a (possibly non-existent) directory at the end of the command
506 line, the command is run inside the directory (possibly after creating it).
</p></div>
508 <h2 id=
"_description">DESCRIPTION
</h2>
509 <div class=
"sectionbody">
510 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>This command creates an empty git repository - basically a
<tt>.git
</tt> directory
511 with subdirectories for
<tt>objects
</tt>,
<tt>refs/heads
</tt>,
<tt>refs/tags
</tt>, and
513 An initial
<tt>HEAD
</tt> file that references the HEAD of the master branch
514 is also created.
</p></div>
515 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If the
<tt>$GIT_DIR
</tt> environment variable is set then it specifies a path
516 to use instead of
<tt>./.git
</tt> for the base of the repository.
</p></div>
517 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>If the object storage directory is specified via the
<tt>$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY
</tt>
518 environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath -
519 otherwise the default
<tt>$GIT_DIR/objects
</tt> directory is used.
</p></div>
520 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Running
<em>git init
</em> in an existing repository is safe. It will not overwrite
521 things that are already there. The primary reason for rerunning
<em>git init
</em>
522 is to pick up newly added templates.
</p></div>
523 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Note that
<em>git init
</em> is the same as
<em>git init-db
</em>. The command
524 was primarily meant to initialize the object database, but over
525 time it has become responsible for setting up the other aspects
526 of the repository, such as installing the default hooks and
527 setting the configuration variables. The old name is retained
528 for backward compatibility reasons.
</p></div>
530 <h2 id=
"_template_directory">TEMPLATE DIRECTORY
</h2>
531 <div class=
"sectionbody">
532 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The template directory contains files and directories that will be copied to
533 the
<tt>$GIT_DIR
</tt> after it is created.
</p></div>
534 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The template directory used will (in order):
</p></div>
535 <div class=
"ulist"><ul>
538 The argument given with the
<tt>--template
</tt> option.
543 The contents of the
<tt>$GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR
</tt> environment variable.
548 The
<tt>init.templatedir
</tt> configuration variable.
553 The default template directory:
<tt>/usr/share/git-core/templates
</tt>.
557 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>The default template directory includes some directory structure, some
558 suggested
"exclude patterns", and copies of sample
"hook" files.
559 The suggested patterns and hook files are all modifiable and extensible.
</p></div>
561 <h2 id=
"_examples">EXAMPLES
</h2>
562 <div class=
"sectionbody">
563 <div class=
"dlist"><dl>
565 Start a new git repository for an existing code base
568 <div class=
"listingblock">
569 <div class=
"content">
570 <pre><tt>$ cd /path/to/my/codebase
571 $ git init
<b><1></b>
572 $ git add .
<b><2></b></tt></pre>
574 <div class=
"colist arabic"><ol>
577 prepare /path/to/my/codebase/.git directory
582 add all existing file to the index
589 <h2 id=
"_git">GIT
</h2>
590 <div class=
"sectionbody">
591 <div class=
"paragraph"><p>Part of the
<a href=
"git.html">git(
1)
</a> suite
</p></div>
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"footer-text">
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