[denis@ibmtest tmp]$ mkdir testgit
[denis@ibmtest tmp]$ cd testgit/
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ mkdir metadata
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ mkdir project
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ export GIT_DIR=`pwd`/metadata
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ ls
metadata  project
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ echo $GIT_DIR
/home/denis/tmp/testgit/metadata
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ export GIT
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ export GIT_WORK_TREE=`pwd`/project
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ cd project/
[denis@ibmtest project]$ ls
[denis@ibmtest project]$ git-init-db
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/denis/tmp/testgit/metadata/
[denis@ibmtest project]$ ls
[denis@ibmtest project]$ ls -a
.  ..
[denis@ibmtest project]$ cat >file
test
[denis@ibmtest project]$ git-add file
[denis@ibmtest project]$ git-commit -a
Created initial commit 5d256d5: file:
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 file
[denis@ibmtest project]$ ls -l
итого 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 denis denis 5 Фев 11 22:02 file
[denis@ibmtest project]$ ls -a
.  ..  file
[denis@ibmtest project]$ cd ..
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ ls
metadata  project
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ cd metadata/
branches/    description  hooks/       info/        objects/
config       HEAD         index        logs/        refs/
[denis@ibmtest testgit]$ cd metadata/
[denis@ibmtest metadata]$ ls
branches  config  description  HEAD  hooks  index  info  logs  objects  refs
[denis@ibmtest metadata]$