From 7240d29b46e07f45efba2fbc22bb793ec462bafc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justus Kuhlmann <justus@kuhl-mann.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 11:40:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add thin create wrapper

---
 corrlib/initialization.py   | 2 +-
 corrlib/tracker.py          | 9 +++++++++
 corrlib/trackers/datalad.py | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/corrlib/initialization.py b/corrlib/initialization.py
index 130cea8..14bcaf0 100644
--- a/corrlib/initialization.py
+++ b/corrlib/initialization.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def create(path: str) -> None:
     Create folder of backlogs.
 
     """
-    dl.create(path)
+    create(path)
     _create_db(os.path.join(path, 'backlogger.db'))
     os.chmod(os.path.join(path, 'backlogger.db'), 0o666)  # why does this not work?
     _create_config(path)
diff --git a/corrlib/tracker.py b/corrlib/tracker.py
index e6d4ad5..7f63e9b 100644
--- a/corrlib/tracker.py
+++ b/corrlib/tracker.py
@@ -27,3 +27,12 @@ def save(path: str, message: str, files: list[str]) -> None:
         dl.save(files, message=message, dataset=path)
     else:
         raise ValueError(f"Tracker {tracker} is not supported.")
+
+
+def create(path: str) -> None:
+    tracker = get_tracker(path)
+    if tracker == 'datalad':
+        dl.create(path)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"Tracker {tracker} is not supported.")
+    return
diff --git a/corrlib/trackers/datalad.py b/corrlib/trackers/datalad.py
index e9a6e9f..4eccf0f 100644
--- a/corrlib/trackers/datalad.py
+++ b/corrlib/trackers/datalad.py
@@ -18,3 +18,8 @@ def save(path, message, files= None):
         files = [os.path.join(path, f) for f in files]
     dl.save(files, message=message, dataset=path)
     return
+
+
+def create(path):
+    dl.create(path)
+    return