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' [-o <index-file>] <pack-file> 12'git-index-pack' --stdin [--fix-thin] [-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-o <index-file>:: 26 Write the generated pack index into the specified 27 file. Without this option the name of pack index 28 file is constructed from the name of packed archive 29 file by replacing .pack with .idx (and the program 30 fails if the name of packed archive does not end 31 with .pack). 32 33--stdin:: 34 When this flag is provided, the pack is read from stdin 35 instead and a copy is then written to <pack-file>. If 36 <pack-file> is not specified, the pack is written to 37 objects/pack/ directory of the current git repository with 38 a default name determined from the pack content. 39 40--fix-thin:: 41 It is possible for gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] to build 42 "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based on 43 objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic. 44 Those objects are expected to be present on the receiving end 45 and they must be included in the pack for that pack to be self 46 contained and indexable. Without this option any attempt to 47 index a thin pack will fail. This option only makes sense in 48 conjonction with --stdin. 49 50 51Author 52------ 53Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> 54 55Documentation 56------------- 57Documentation by Sergey Vlasov 58 59GIT 60--- 61Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 62