thodg/libgit2

diff --git a/examples/Makefile b/examples/Makefile
index 95e46f0..d53ed82 100644
--- a/examples/Makefile
+++ b/examples/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 CC = gcc
 CFLAGS = -g -I../include -I../src -Wall -Wextra -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-missing-field-initializers
 LFLAGS = -L../build -lgit2 -lz
-APPS = general showindex diff rev-list cat-file status log rev-parse
+APPS = general showindex diff rev-list cat-file status log rev-parse init
 
 all: $(APPS)
 
diff --git a/examples/init.c b/examples/init.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76b037a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/init.c
@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <git2.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <time.h>
+
+static void fail(const char *msg, const char *arg)
+{
+	if (arg)
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s %s\n", msg, arg);
+	else
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", msg);
+	exit(1);
+}
+
+static void usage(const char *error, const char *arg)
+{
+	fprintf(stderr, "error: %s '%s'\n", error, arg);
+	fprintf(stderr, "usage: init [-q | --quiet] [--bare] "
+			"[--template=<dir>] [--shared[=perms]] <directory>\n");
+	exit(1);
+}
+
+static size_t is_prefixed(const char *arg, const char *pfx)
+{
+	size_t len = strlen(pfx);
+	return !strncmp(arg, pfx, len) ? len : 0;
+}
+
+static uint32_t parse_shared(const char *shared)
+{
+	if (!strcmp(shared, "false") || !strcmp(shared, "umask"))
+		return GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_SHARED_UMASK;
+
+	else if (!strcmp(shared, "true") || !strcmp(shared, "group"))
+		return GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_SHARED_GROUP;
+
+	else if (!strcmp(shared, "all") || !strcmp(shared, "world") ||
+			 !strcmp(shared, "everybody"))
+		return GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_SHARED_ALL;
+
+	else if (shared[0] == '0') {
+		long val;
+		char *end = NULL;
+		val = strtol(shared + 1, &end, 8);
+		if (end == shared + 1 || *end != 0)
+			usage("invalid octal value for --shared", shared);
+		return (uint32_t)val;
+	}
+
+	else
+		usage("unknown value for --shared", shared);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void create_initial_commit(git_repository *repo);
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	git_repository *repo = NULL;
+	int no_options = 1, quiet = 0, bare = 0, initial_commit = 0, i;
+	uint32_t shared = GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_SHARED_UMASK;
+	const char *template = NULL, *gitdir = NULL, *dir = NULL;
+	size_t pfxlen;
+
+	git_threads_init();
+
+	/* Process arguments */
+
+	for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
+		char *a = argv[i];
+
+		if (a[0] == '-')
+			no_options = 0;
+
+		if (a[0] != '-') {
+			if (dir != NULL)
+				usage("extra argument", a);
+			dir = a;
+		}
+		else if (!strcmp(a, "-q") || !strcmp(a, "--quiet"))
+			quiet = 1;
+		else if (!strcmp(a, "--bare"))
+			bare = 1;
+		else if ((pfxlen = is_prefixed(a, "--template=")) > 0)
+			template = a + pfxlen;
+		else if (!strcmp(a, "--separate-git-dir"))
+			gitdir = argv[++i];
+		else if ((pfxlen = is_prefixed(a, "--separate-git-dir=")) > 0)
+			gitdir = a + pfxlen;
+		else if (!strcmp(a, "--shared"))
+			shared = GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_SHARED_GROUP;
+		else if ((pfxlen = is_prefixed(a, "--shared=")) > 0)
+			shared = parse_shared(a + pfxlen);
+		else if (!strcmp(a, "--initial-commit"))
+			initial_commit = 1;
+		else
+			usage("unknown option", a);
+	}
+
+	if (!dir)
+		usage("must specify directory to init", NULL);
+
+	/* Initialize repository */
+
+	if (no_options) {
+		/* No options were specified, so let's demonstrate the default
+		 * simple case of git_repository_init() API usage...
+		 */
+
+		if (git_repository_init(&repo, dir, 0) < 0)
+			fail("Could not initialize repository", dir);
+	}
+	else {
+		/* Some command line options were specified, so we'll use the
+		 * extended init API to handle them
+		 */
+		git_repository_init_options opts = GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_OPTIONS_INIT;
+
+		if (bare)
+			opts.flags |= GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_BARE;
+
+		if (template) {
+			opts.flags |= GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_EXTERNAL_TEMPLATE;
+			opts.template_path = template;
+		}
+
+		if (gitdir) {
+			/* if you specified a separate git directory, then initialize
+			 * the repository at that path and use the second path as the
+			 * working directory of the repository (with a git-link file)
+			 */
+			opts.workdir_path = dir;
+			dir = gitdir;
+		}
+
+		if (shared != 0)
+			opts.mode = shared;
+
+		if (git_repository_init_ext(&repo, dir, &opts) < 0)
+			fail("Could not initialize repository", dir);
+	}
+
+	if (!quiet) {
+		if (bare || gitdir)
+			dir = git_repository_path(repo);
+		else
+			dir = git_repository_workdir(repo);
+
+		printf("Initialized empty Git repository in %s\n", dir);
+	}
+
+	/* As an extension to the basic "git init" command, this example
+	 * gives the option to create an empty initial commit.  This is
+	 * mostly to demonstrate what it takes to do that, but also some
+	 * people like to have that empty base commit in their repo.
+	 */
+	if (initial_commit) {
+		create_initial_commit(repo);
+		printf("Created empty initial commit\n");
+	}
+
+	git_repository_free(repo);
+	git_threads_shutdown();
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void create_initial_commit(git_repository *repo)
+{
+	git_signature *sig;
+	git_index *index;
+	git_oid tree_id, commit_id;
+	git_tree *tree;
+
+	/* First use the config to initialize a commit signature for the user */
+
+	if (git_signature_default(&sig, repo) < 0)
+		fail("Unable to create a commit signature.",
+			 "Perhaps 'user.name' and 'user.email' are not set");
+
+	/* Now let's create an empty tree for this commit */
+
+	if (git_repository_index(&index, repo) < 0)
+		fail("Could not open repository index", NULL);
+
+	/* Outside of this example, you could call git_index_add_bypath()
+	 * here to put actual files into the index.  For our purposes, we'll
+	 * leave it empty for now.
+	 */
+
+	if (git_index_write_tree(&tree_id, index) < 0)
+		fail("Unable to write initial tree from index", NULL);
+
+	git_index_free(index);
+
+	if (git_tree_lookup(&tree, repo, &tree_id) < 0)
+		fail("Could not look up initial tree", NULL);
+
+	/* Ready to create the initial commit
+	 *
+	 * Normally creating a commit would involve looking up the current
+	 * HEAD commit and making that be the parent of the initial commit,
+	 * but here this is the first commit so there will be no parent.
+	 */
+
+	if (git_commit_create_v(
+			&commit_id, repo, "HEAD", sig, sig,
+			NULL, "Initial commit", tree, 0) < 0)
+		fail("Could not create the initial commit", NULL);
+
+	/* Clean up so we don't leak memory */
+
+	git_tree_free(tree);
+	git_signature_free(sig);
+}