1git-update-server-info(1) 2========================= 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-update-server-info - Update auxiliary info file to help dumb servers 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-update-server-info' [--force] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16A dumb server that does not do on-the-fly pack generations can 17have some auxiliary information files in $GIT_DIR/info and 18$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info directories to help clients discover 19what references and packs the server has and make an optimized 20pull decisions. This command generates such auxiliary files. 21 22 23OPTIONS 24------- 25 26--force:: 27 Update the info files even when they do not appear 28 stale. 29 30 31Author 32------ 33Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> 34 35Documentation 36-------------- 37Documentation by Junio C Hamano. 38 39GIT 40--- 41Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 42