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| author | Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> | 2005-08-05 17:05:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-08-05 23:07:00 -0700 |
| commit | 2c6e4771959dbe8116f39587d912f1215c06cd0d (patch) | |
| tree | 4a0507fb450fc5c74ecc489701917f188a0a5077 /Documentation/git-init-db.txt | |
| parent | eca35ecdcaa1448de8cc9ec64590f47a9012264a (diff) | |
| download | git-2c6e4771959dbe8116f39587d912f1215c06cd0d.tar.gz git-2c6e4771959dbe8116f39587d912f1215c06cd0d.tar.xz | |
[PATCH] Assorted documentation patches
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our
use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections
not related to the terminology unification. I really appreciate
it.]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-init-db.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-init-db.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-init-db.txt b/Documentation/git-init-db.txt index 99f96f7d4..fb8b52253 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. |