SYNOPSIS
git annex init [description]
DESCRIPTION
Until a repository (or one of its remotes) has been initialized, git-annex will refuse to operate on it, to avoid accidentally using it in a repository that was not intended to have an annex.It's useful, but not mandatory, to initialize each new clone of a repository with its own description. If you don't provide one, one will be generated using the username, hostname and the path.
If any special remotes were configured with autoenable=true, this will also attempt to enable them. See git-annex-initremote(1). To disable this, re-enable a remote with "autoenable=false", or mark it as dead (see git-annex-dead(1)).
This command is entirely safe, although usually pointless, to run inside an already initialized git-annex repository.
OPTIONS
- --version=N
- Force the repository to be initialized using a different annex.version than the current default.