1git-unpack-objects(1) 2===================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-unpack-objects - Unpack objects from a packed archive 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-unpack-objects' [-n] [-q] <pack-file 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Read a packed archive (.pack) from the standard input, expanding 17the objects contained within and writing them into the repository in 18"loose" (one object per file) format. 19 20Objects that already exist in the repository will *not* be unpacked 21from the pack-file. Therefore, nothing will be unpacked if you use 22this command on a pack-file that exists within the target repository. 23 24Please see the `git-repack` documentation for options to generate 25new packs and replace existing ones. 26 27OPTIONS 28------- 29-n:: 30 Only list the objects that would be unpacked, don't actually unpack 31 them. 32 33-q:: 34 The command usually shows percentage progress. This 35 flag suppresses it. 36 37 38Author 39------ 40Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 41 42Documentation 43------------- 44Documentation by Junio C Hamano 45 46GIT 47--- 48Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 49