<hr><i>anonymous claiming to be Dmitry Chestnykh added on 2009-10-11 13:01:44:</i><br>
I don't think it's a good idea to rename "new" to "init". 

Firstly, I don't see why "init" describes creation of a new repository better than "new". 

Secondly, "new" is actually different from "init" in Git or Mercurial, because it creates an SQLite file for repository, not a dot-folder inside the specified directory, so renaming it to "init" can be misleading. Also, it requires a name of the repository file, not directory.