# stestr init Command

Initialise a new repository.

class stestr.commands.init.Init(app, app_args, cmd_name=None)

  Create a new repository.

  take_action(parsed_args)

    Override to do something useful.

    The returned value will be returned by the program.

stestr.commands.init.init(repo_type='file', repo_url=None, stdout=<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>)

  Initialize a new repository

  This function will create initialize a new repostiory if one does not exist. If one exists the command will fail.

  Note this function depends on the cwd for the repository if repo_type is set to file and repo_url is not specified it will use the repository located at CWD/.stestr

  Parameters

    - repo_type (str) – This is the type of repository to use. Valid choices are ‘file’ and ‘sql’.

    - repo_url (str) – The url of the repository to use.

  Return return_code

    The exit code for the command. 0 for success and > 0 for failures.

  Return type

    int