NAME
git-init - Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing oneSYNOPSIS
git init [-q | --quiet] [--bare] [--template=<template-directory>] [--separate-git-dir <git-dir>] [--object-format=<format>] [-b <branch-name> | --initial-branch=<branch-name>] [--shared[=<permissions>]] [<directory>]
DESCRIPTION
This command creates an empty Git repository - basically a .git directory with subdirectories for objects, refs/heads, refs/tags, and template files. An initial branch without any commits will be created (see the --initial-branch option below for its name).OPTIONS
-q, --quietOnly print error and warning messages; all
other output will be suppressed.
--bare
Create a bare repository. If GIT_DIR
environment is not set, it is set to the current working directory.
--object-format=<format>
Specify the given object format (hash
algorithm) for the repository. The valid values are sha1 and (if
enabled) sha256. sha1 is the default.
THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL! SHA-256 support is experimental and still in an
early stage. A SHA-256 repository will in general not be able to share work
with "regular" SHA-1 repositories. It should be assumed that, e.g.,
Git internal file formats in relation to SHA-256 repositories may change in
backwards-incompatible ways. Only use --object-format=sha256 for
testing purposes.
--template=<template-directory>
Specify the directory from which templates
will be used. (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section below.)
--separate-git-dir=<git-dir>
Instead of initializing the repository as a
directory to either $GIT_DIR or ./.git/, create a text file
there containing the path to the actual repository. This file acts as
filesystem-agnostic Git symbolic link to the repository.
If this is reinitialization, the repository will be moved to the specified
path.
-b <branch-name>, --initial-branch=<branch-name>
Use the specified name for the initial branch
in the newly created repository. If not specified, fall back to the default
name (currently master, but this is subject to change in the future;
the name can be customized via the init.defaultBranch configuration
variable).
--shared[=(false|true|umask|group|all|world|everybody|<perm>)]
Specify that the Git repository is to be
shared amongst several users. This allows users belonging to the same group to
push into that repository. When specified, the config variable
"core.sharedRepository" is set so that files and directories under
$GIT_DIR are created with the requested permissions. When not
specified, Git will use permissions reported by umask(2).
The option can have the following values, defaulting to group if no value
is given:
umask (or false)
Use permissions reported by umask(2). The
default, when --shared is not specified.
group (or true)
Make the repository group-writable, (and g+sx,
since the git group may be not the primary group of all users). This is used
to loosen the permissions of an otherwise safe umask(2) value. Note that the
umask still applies to the other permission bits (e.g. if umask is
0022, using group will not remove read privileges from other
(non-group) users). See 0xxx for how to exactly specify the repository
permissions.
all (or world or everybody)
Same as group, but make the repository
readable by all users.
<perm>
<perm> is a 3-digit octal number
prefixed with ‘0` and each file will have mode <perm>.
<perm> will override users’ umask(2) value (and not only
loosen permissions as group and all does). 0640 will
create a repository which is group-readable, but not group-writable or
accessible to others. 0660 will create a repo that is readable and
writable to the current user and group, but inaccessible to others
(directories and executable files get their x bit from the r bit
for corresponding classes of users).
TEMPLATE DIRECTORY
Files and directories in the template directory whose name do not start with a dot will be copied to the $GIT_DIR after it is created.•the argument given with the
--template option;
•the contents of the
$GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR environment variable;
•the init.templateDir
configuration variable; or
•the default template directory:
/usr/share/git-core/templates.
EXAMPLES
Start a new Git repository for an existing code base$ cd /path/to/my/codebase $ git init (1) $ git add . (2) $ git commit (3)
CONFIGURATION
Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the same as what’s found there: init.templateDirSpecify the directory from which templates
will be copied. (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of
.)
init.defaultBranch
Allows overriding the default branch name e.g.
when initializing a new repository.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite02/28/2023 | Git 2.39.2 |