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            # otherwise, this db is new, so we dont bother using the migration engine
            # and just create the tables, and put the version directly to
            # latest
            else:
                # do some tests before getting started
                test_unicode(engine)

                log.msg("Initializing empty database")
                Model.metadata.create_all(engine)
                repo = migrate.versioning.repository.Repository(self.repo_path)

                version_control(engine, repo.latest)