1git-repack-script(1) 2===================== 3v0.1, August 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-repack-script - Script used to pack a repository from a collection of 8objects into pack files. 9 10 11SYNOPSIS 12-------- 13'git-repack-script' 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17This script is used to combine all objects that do not currently reside in a 18"pack", into a pack. 19 20A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with delta 21compression applied, stored in a single file, with an associated index file. 22 23Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup engines, disk storage, etc. 24 25Author 26------ 27Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 28 29Documentation 30-------------- 31Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 32 33See-Also 34-------- 35git-pack-objects(1) git-prune-packed(1) 36 37GIT 38--- 39Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 40