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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. |