1git-prune-packed(1) 2===================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-prune-packed - Remove extra objects that are already in pack files 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-prune-packed' [-n] [-q] 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16This program search the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIR` for all objects that currently 17exist in a pack file as well as the independent object directories. 18 19All such extra objects are removed. 20 21A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with delta 22compression applied, stored in a single file, with an associated index file. 23 24Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup engines, 25disk storage, etc. 26 27 28OPTIONS 29------- 30-n:: 31 Don't actually remove any objects, only show those that would have been 32 removed. 33 34-q:: 35 Squelch the progress indicator. 36 37Author 38------ 39Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 40 41Documentation 42-------------- 43Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 44 45See Also 46-------- 47gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] 48gitlink:git-repack[1] 49 50GIT 51--- 52Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 53