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' [-n] [-q] 13 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17This program search the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIR` for all objects that currently 18exist in a pack file as well as the independent object directories. 19 20All such extra objects are removed. 21 22A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with delta 23compression applied, stored in a single file, with an associated index file. 24 25Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup engines, 26disk storage, etc. 27 28 29OPTIONS 30------- 31-n:: 32 Don't actually remove any objects, only show those that would have been 33 removed. 34 35-q:: 36 Squelch the progress indicator. 37 38Author 39------ 40Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 41 42Documentation 43-------------- 44Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 45 46See Also 47-------- 48gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] 49gitlink:git-repack[1] 50 51GIT 52--- 53Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 54