1git-prune-packed(1) 2===================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-prune-packed - Program used to remove the extra object files that are now 7residing in a pack file. 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-prune-packed' [-n] 13 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17This program search the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIR` for all objects that currently 18exist in a 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, 26disk storage, etc. 27 28 29OPTIONS 30------- 31-n:: 32 Don't actually remove any objects, only show those that would have been 33 removed. 34 35Author 36------ 37Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 38 39Documentation 40-------------- 41Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 42 43See-Also 44-------- 45gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] 46gitlink:git-repack[1] 47 48GIT 49--- 50Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 51