1git-index-pack(1) 2================= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-index-pack - Build pack index file for an existing packed archive 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-index-pack' [-v] [-o <index-file>] <pack-file> 12'git-index-pack' --stdin [--fix-thin] [-v] [-o <index-file>] [<pack-file>] 13 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the specified file, and 18builds a pack index file (.idx) for it. The packed archive 19together with the pack index can then be placed in the 20objects/pack/ directory of a git repository. 21 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25-v:: 26 Be verbose about what is going on, including progress status. 27 28-o <index-file>:: 29 Write the generated pack index into the specified 30 file. Without this option the name of pack index 31 file is constructed from the name of packed archive 32 file by replacing .pack with .idx (and the program 33 fails if the name of packed archive does not end 34 with .pack). 35 36--stdin:: 37 When this flag is provided, the pack is read from stdin 38 instead and a copy is then written to <pack-file>. If 39 <pack-file> is not specified, the pack is written to 40 objects/pack/ directory of the current git repository with 41 a default name determined from the pack content. 42 43--fix-thin:: 44 It is possible for gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] to build 45 "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based on 46 objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. 47 Those objects are expected to be present on the receiving end 48 and they must be included in the pack for that pack to be self 49 contained and indexable. Without this option any attempt to 50 index a thin pack will fail. This option only makes sense in 51 conjonction with --stdin. 52 53 54Author 55------ 56Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> 57 58Documentation 59------------- 60Documentation by Sergey Vlasov 61 62GIT 63--- 64Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 65