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NAME
       git-init - Create an empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing
       one

SYNOPSIS
       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).

       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.

       Running git init in an existing repository is safe. It will not
       overwrite things that are already there. The primary reason for
       rerunning git init is to pick up newly added templates (or to move the
       repository to another place if --separate-git-dir is given).

OPTIONS
       -q, --quiet
	   Only 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).

       By default, the configuration flag receive.denyNonFastForwards is
       enabled in shared repositories, so that you cannot force a non
       fast-forwarding push into it.

       If you provide a directory, the command is run inside it. If this
       directory does not exist, it will be created.

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 template directory will be one of the following (in order):

       o   the argument given with the --template option;

       o   the contents of the $GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR environment variable;

       o   the init.templateDir configuration variable; or

       o   the default template directory: /usr/share/git-core/templates.

       The default template directory includes some directory structure,
       suggested "exclude patterns" (see gitignore(5)), and sample hook files.

       The sample hooks are all disabled by default. To enable one of the
       sample hooks rename it by removing its .sample suffix.

       See githooks(5) for more general info on hook execution.

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)

	   1. Create a /path/to/my/codebase/.git directory.
	   2. Add all existing files to the index.
	   3. Record the pristine state as the first commit in the history.

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.templateDir
	   Specify the directory from which templates will be copied. (See the
	   "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of git-init(1).)

       init.defaultBranch
	   Allows overriding the default branch name e.g. when initializing a
	   new repository.

GIT
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Git 2.38.4			  05/16/2024			   GIT-INIT(1)