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diff --git a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt index fb8b52253e..648a6cd78a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt @@ -1,41 +1,23 @@ git-init-db(1) ============== -v0.1, May 2005 NAME ---- -git-init-db - Creates an empty git repository +git-init-db - Creates an empty Git repository SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-init-db' +[verse] +'git init-db' [-q | --quiet] [--bare] [--template=<template_directory>] [--separate-git-dir <git dir>] [--shared[=<permissions>]] + DESCRIPTION ----------- -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_DIR/objects` directory is used. - -"git-init-db" won't hurt an existing repository. - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. +This is a synonym for linkgit:git-init[1]. Please refer to the +documentation of that command. GIT --- -Part of the link:git.html[git] suite - +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |