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<h1>init<a class="headerlink" href="#init" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Purpose:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Make a directory into a versioned branch.</p>
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<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Usage:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">bzr init [LOCATION]</p>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Options:</th><td class="field-body"><table class="first docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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<kbd><span class="option">-v</span>, <span class="option">--verbose</span></kbd></td>
<td><p class="first last">Display more information.</p>
</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--create-prefix</span></kbd></td>
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<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first last">Create the path leading up to the branch if it does
not already exist.</p>
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<kbd><span class="option">-q</span>, <span class="option">--quiet</span></kbd></td>
<td><p class="first last">Only display errors and warnings.</p>
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<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--append-revisions-only</span></kbd></td>
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<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first last">Never change revnos or the existing log. Append
revisions to it only.</p>
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<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--usage</span></kbd></td>
<td><p class="first last">Show usage message and options.</p>
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<kbd><span class="option">--no-tree</span></kbd></td>
<td><p class="first last">Create a branch without a working tree.</p>
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<kbd><span class="option">-h</span>, <span class="option">--help</span></kbd></td>
<td><p class="first last">Show help message.</p>
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<dt>Branch format:</dt>
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<kbd><span class="option">--format=<var>ARG</var></span></kbd></td>
<td><p class="first last">Specify a format for this branch. See “help formats”.</p>
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<kbd><span class="option">--2a</span></kbd></td>
<td><p class="first last">Format for the bzr 2.0 series. Uses group-compress
storage. Provides rich roots which are a one-way
transition.</p>
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<kbd><span class="option">--default</span></kbd></td>
<td><p class="first last">Format for the bzr 2.0 series. Uses group-compress
storage. Provides rich roots which are a one-way
transition.</p>
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<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--development-colo</span></kbd></td>
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<tr><td> </td><td><p class="first last">The 2a format with experimental support for colocated
branches.</p>
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<dt>–pack-0.92 Pack-based format used in 1.x series. Introduced in</dt>
<dd><p class="first last">0.92. Interoperates with bzr repositories before 0.92
but cannot be read by bzr < 0.92.</p>
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<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Description:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">Use this to create an empty branch, or before importing an
existing project.</p>
<p>If there is a repository in a parent directory of the location, then
the history of the branch will be stored in the repository. Otherwise
init creates a standalone branch which carries its own history
in the .bzr directory.</p>
<p>If there is already a branch at the location but it has no working tree,
the tree can be populated with ‘bzr checkout’.</p>
<p>Recipe for importing a tree of files:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">cd</span> <span class="o">~/</span><span class="n">project</span>
<span class="n">bzr</span> <span class="n">init</span>
<span class="n">bzr</span> <span class="n">add</span> <span class="o">.</span>
<span class="n">bzr</span> <span class="n">status</span>
<span class="n">bzr</span> <span class="n">commit</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">m</span> <span class="s2">"imported project"</span>
</pre></div>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">See also:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last"><a class="reference internal" href="branch-help.html"><span class="doc">branch</span></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="checkout-help.html"><span class="doc">checkout</span></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="init-repository-help.html"><span class="doc">init-repository</span></a></p>
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