X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-init-db.txt;h=ef1826ae672cb6537d497d027e5babe4988a42b0;hb=313c4714c5ec1673805b952ba79d910a42e8937c;hp=99f96f7d4f67f07ed7ce6bcdcccdba795a80a93d;hpb=85c1f337be49eaa9a22e42a1c9958deef5ab57c3;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt index 99f96f7d..ef1826ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ git-init-db(1) ============== -v0.1, May 2005 NAME ---- -git-init-db - Creates an empty git object database +git-init-db - Creates an empty git repository SYNOPSIS @@ -13,15 +12,16 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -This simply creates an empty git object database - basically a `.git` -directory and `.git/object/??/` directories. +This simply creates an empty git repository - basically a `.git` directory +and `.git/object/??/`, `.git/refs/heads` and `.git/refs/tags` directories, +and links `.git/HEAD` symbolically to `.git/refs/heads/master`. If the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable is set then it specifies a path to use instead of `./.git` for the base of the repository. If the object storage directory is specified via the 'GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY' environment variable then the sha1 directories are created underneath - -otherwise the default `.git/objects` directory is used. +otherwise the default `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory is used. "git-init-db" won't hurt an existing repository. @@ -36,5 +36,5 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list