1git-repack(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-repack - Pack unpacked objects in a repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-n] [-q] [--window=N] [--depth=N] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15 16This script is used to combine all objects that do not currently 17reside in a "pack", into a pack. It can also be used to re-organize 18existing packs into a single, more efficient pack. 19 20A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with 21delta compression applied, stored in a single file, with an 22associated index file. 23 24Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup 25engines, disk storage, etc. 26 27OPTIONS 28------- 29 30-a:: 31 Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects, 32 pack everything referenced into a single pack. 33 Especially useful when packing a repository that is used 34 for private development and there is no need to worry 35 about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use 36 with '-d'. This will clean up the objects that `git prune` 37 leaves behind, but `git fsck --full` shows as 38 dangling. 39 40-A:: 41 Same as `-a`, but any unreachable objects in a previous 42 pack become loose, unpacked objects, instead of being 43 left in the old pack. Unreachable objects are never 44 intentionally added to a pack, even when repacking. 45 When used with '-d', this option 46 prevents unreachable objects from being immediately 47 deleted by way of being left in the old pack and then 48 removed. Instead, the loose unreachable objects 49 will be pruned according to normal expiry rules 50 with the next linkgit:git-gc[1]. 51 52-d:: 53 After packing, if the newly created packs make some 54 existing packs redundant, remove the redundant packs. 55 Also runs linkgit:git-prune-packed[1]. 56 57-l:: 58 Pass the `--local` option to `git pack-objects`, see 59 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 60 61-f:: 62 Pass the `--no-reuse-delta` option to `git pack-objects`, see 63 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 64 65-q:: 66 Pass the `-q` option to `git pack-objects`, see 67 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 68 69-n:: 70 Do not update the server information with 71 `git update-server-info`. This option skips 72 updating local catalog files needed to publish 73 this repository (or a direct copy of it) 74 over HTTP or FTP. See gitlink:git-update-server-info[1]. 75 76--window=[N], --depth=[N]:: 77 These two options affect how the objects contained in the pack are 78 stored using delta compression. The objects are first internally 79 sorted by type, size and optionally names and compared against the 80 other objects within `--window` to see if using delta compression saves 81 space. `--depth` limits the maximum delta depth; making it too deep 82 affects the performance on the unpacker side, because delta data needs 83 to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. 84 The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. 85 86--window-memory=[N]:: 87 This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`; 88 the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take 89 up more than N bytes in memory. This is useful in 90 repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run 91 out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take 92 advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. The 93 size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". 94 `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the 95 default. 96 97--max-pack-size=<n>:: 98 Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB. 99 If specified, multiple packfiles may be created. 100 The default is unlimited. 101 102 103Configuration 104------------- 105 106When configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` is set 107for the repository, the command passes `--delta-base-offset` 108option to `git-pack-objects`; this typically results in slightly 109smaller packs, but the generated packs are incompatible with 110versions of git older than (and including) v1.4.3; do not set 111the variable in a repository that older version of git needs to 112be able to read (this includes repositories from which packs can 113be copied out over http or rsync, and people who obtained packs 114that way can try to use older git with it). 115 116 117Author 118------ 119Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 120 121Documentation 122-------------- 123Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 124 125See Also 126-------- 127linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] 128linkgit:git-prune-packed[1] 129 130GIT 131--- 132Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite