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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: How to make public repository GIT_DIR=my-git.git git-init
	Command not found.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:19:25 -0800
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Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to make a public repository. I followed the instructions in gitcore-tutorial. I typed "GIT_DIR=my-git.git git init" per instruction. But, I got command not found. I do not think this is the correct command. How should I do? I use C-Shell.
> 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man7/gitcore-tutorial.html
> 
> %mkdir my-git.git
> %GIT_DIR=my-git.git git init
> 
> GIT_DIR=my-git.git: Command not found.

Instead you can do:

  $ git --git-dir=my-git.git init

The --git-dir option does the same thing that GIT_DIR= was doing
in a Bourne shell.

-- 
Shawn.