X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-init-db.txt;h=ef2d04a612bb79f9db0aa58b71089bf505cc2d72;hb=0493a3fd5204a36bc961a8611770ddb9ec1ed8ed;hp=99f96f7d4f67f07ed7ce6bcdcccdba795a80a93d;hpb=85c1f337be49eaa9a22e42a1c9958deef5ab57c3;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt index 99f96f7d..ef2d04a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ 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 +13,16 @@ 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 +37,5 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list