ERSION</code></dt>
<dd>
<p>This environment variable allows the specification of an index
version for new repositories.  It won&#8217;t affect existing index
files.  By default index file version 2 or 3 is used. See
<a href="git-update-index.html">git-update-index(1)</a> for more information.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1"><code>GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY</code></dt>
<dd>
<p>If the object storage directory is specified via this
environment variable then the sha1 directories are created
underneath - otherwise the d