improve docs for init

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Joey Hess 2011-08-17 14:43:38 -04:00
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@ -121,8 +121,14 @@ Many git-annex commands will stage changes for later `git commit` by you.
* init description
Initializes git-annex with a description of the git repository,
and sets up the pre-commit hook.
Initializes git-annex with a description of the git repository.
Until a repository (or one of its remotes) has been initialized,
git-annex will refuse to operate on it, to avoid accidentially
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.
* describe repository description