1git-prune-packed(1) 2===================== 3v0.1, August 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-prune-packed - Program used to remove the extra object files that are now 8residing in a pack file. 9 10 11SYNOPSIS 12-------- 13'git-prune-packed' 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17This program search the GIT_OBJECT_DIR for all objects that currently exist in 18a 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, disk storage, etc. 26 27Author 28------ 29Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 30 31Documentation 32-------------- 33Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 34 35See-Also 36-------- 37gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] 38gitlink:git-repack[1] 39 40GIT 41--- 42Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 43