What happens to an existing git repository when you issue git init
again?
I created a repository with git init
. Created a file, add, commit. Check the status (nothing to commit). Then created another file, check the status and I can see it’s untracked as expected.
Then, say by mistake, I run git init
again and I get Reinitialise existing Git repository message.
Tried git status
, but it shows the same. So what really happens?
Can reinitialising an existing git repository this way be harmful or helpful? Why can we git init
inside an existing repository?