1git-repack(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-repack - Pack unpacked objects in a repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-F] [-l] [-n] [-q] [-b] [--window=<n>] [--depth=<n>] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16 17This command is used to combine all objects that do not currently 18reside in a "pack", into a pack. It can also be used to re-organize 19existing packs into a single, more efficient pack. 20 21A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with 22delta compression applied, stored in a single file, with an 23associated index file. 24 25Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup 26engines, disk storage, etc. 27 28OPTIONS 29------- 30 31-a:: 32 Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects, 33 pack everything referenced into a single pack. 34 Especially useful when packing a repository that is used 35 for private development. Use 36 with '-d'. This will clean up the objects that `git prune` 37 leaves behind, but `git fsck --full --dangling` shows as 38 dangling. 39+ 40Note that users fetching over dumb protocols will have to fetch the 41whole new pack in order to get any contained object, no matter how many 42other objects in that pack they already have locally. 43 44-A:: 45 Same as `-a`, unless '-d' is used. Then any unreachable 46 objects in a previous pack become loose, unpacked objects, 47 instead of being left in the old pack. Unreachable objects 48 are never intentionally added to a pack, even when repacking. 49 This option prevents unreachable objects from being immediately 50 deleted by way of being left in the old pack and then 51 removed. Instead, the loose unreachable objects 52 will be pruned according to normal expiry rules 53 with the next 'git gc' invocation. See linkgit:git-gc[1]. 54 55-d:: 56 After packing, if the newly created packs make some 57 existing packs redundant, remove the redundant packs. 58 Also run 'git prune-packed' to remove redundant 59 loose object files. 60 61-l:: 62 Pass the `--local` option to 'git pack-objects'. See 63 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 64 65-f:: 66 Pass the `--no-reuse-delta` option to `git-pack-objects`, see 67 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 68 69-F:: 70 Pass the `--no-reuse-object` option to `git-pack-objects`, see 71 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 72 73-q:: 74 Pass the `-q` option to 'git pack-objects'. See 75 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 76 77-n:: 78 Do not update the server information with 79 'git update-server-info'. This option skips 80 updating local catalog files needed to publish 81 this repository (or a direct copy of it) 82 over HTTP or FTP. See linkgit:git-update-server-info[1]. 83 84--window=<n>:: 85--depth=<n>:: 86 These two options affect how the objects contained in the pack are 87 stored using delta compression. The objects are first internally 88 sorted by type, size and optionally names and compared against the 89 other objects within `--window` to see if using delta compression saves 90 space. `--depth` limits the maximum delta depth; making it too deep 91 affects the performance on the unpacker side, because delta data needs 92 to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. 93 The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. 94 95--window-memory=<n>:: 96 This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`; 97 the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take 98 up more than '<n>' bytes in memory. This is useful in 99 repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run 100 out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take 101 advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. The 102 size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". 103 `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the 104 default. 105 106--max-pack-size=<n>:: 107 Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be suffixed with 108 "k", "m", or "g". The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. 109 If specified, multiple packfiles may be created. 110 The default is unlimited, unless the config variable 111 `pack.packSizeLimit` is set. 112 113-b:: 114--write-bitmap-index:: 115 Write a reachability bitmap index as part of the repack. This 116 only makes sense when used with `-a` or `-A`, as the bitmaps 117 must be able to refer to all reachable objects. This option 118 overrides the setting of `pack.writebitmaps`. 119 120--pack-kept-objects:: 121 Include objects in `.keep` files when repacking. Note that we 122 still do not delete `.keep` packs after `pack-objects` finishes. 123 This means that we may duplicate objects, but this makes the 124 option safe to use when there are concurrent pushes or fetches. 125 This option is generally only useful if you are writing bitmaps 126 with `-b` or `pack.writebitmaps`, as it ensures that the 127 bitmapped packfile has the necessary objects. 128 129Configuration 130------------- 131 132By default, the command passes `--delta-base-offset` option to 133'git pack-objects'; this typically results in slightly smaller packs, 134but the generated packs are incompatible with versions of Git older than 135version 1.4.4. If you need to share your repository with such ancient Git 136versions, either directly or via the dumb http or rsync protocol, then you 137need to set the configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` to 138"false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the native protocol 139is unaffected by this option as the conversion is performed on the fly 140as needed in that case. 141 142SEE ALSO 143-------- 144linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] 145linkgit:git-prune-packed[1] 146 147GIT 148--- 149Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite