1git-prune-packed(1) 2===================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-prune-packed - Program used to remove the extra object files that are now 7residing in a pack file. 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-prune-packed' 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16This program search the GIT_OBJECT_DIR for all objects that currently exist in 17a 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, disk storage, etc. 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28-n:: 29 Don't actually remove any objects, only show those that would have been 30 removed. 31 32Author 33------ 34Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 35 36Documentation 37-------------- 38Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 39 40See-Also 41-------- 42gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] 43gitlink:git-repack[1] 44 45GIT 46--- 47Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 48