May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
7h 35m
English
The git init command is used to create an empty Git repository as well as to reinitialize an existing repository. When the git init command is run, a .git directory is created alongside sub-directories to hold objects, refs/heads, refs/tags, template files, and an initial HEAD file, which references the HEAD of the master branch. In its simplest form, the git init command passes the repository name, and this creates a repository with the specified name:
git init [repository-name]
To update and pick newly added templates or relocate a repository to another location, git init can be rerun in an existing repository. The command will not overwrite the configurations already in the repository. The full git init ...