1git-repack(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-repack - Pack unpacked objects in a repository 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git repack' [-a] [-A] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-n] [-q] [--window=N] [--depth=N] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15 16This script is used to combine all objects that do not currently 17reside in a "pack", into a pack. It can also be used to re-organize 18existing packs into a single, more efficient pack. 19 20A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with 21delta compression applied, stored in a single file, with an 22associated index file. 23 24Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup 25engines, disk storage, etc. 26 27OPTIONS 28------- 29 30-a:: 31 Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects, 32 pack everything referenced into a single pack. 33 Especially useful when packing a repository that is used 34 for private development and there is no need to worry 35 about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use 36 with '-d'. This will clean up the objects that `git prune` 37 leaves behind, but `git fsck --full` shows as 38 dangling. 39 40-A:: 41 Same as `-a`, unless '-d' is used. Then any unreachable 42 objects in a previous pack become loose, unpacked objects, 43 instead of being left in the old pack. Unreachable objects 44 are never intentionally added to a pack, even when repacking. 45 This option prevents unreachable objects from being immediately 46 deleted by way of being left in the old pack and then 47 removed. Instead, the loose unreachable objects 48 will be pruned according to normal expiry rules 49 with the next 'git-gc' invocation. See linkgit:git-gc[1]. 50 51-d:: 52 After packing, if the newly created packs make some 53 existing packs redundant, remove the redundant packs. 54 Also run 'git-prune-packed' to remove redundant 55 loose object files. 56 57-l:: 58 Pass the `--local` option to 'git-pack-objects'. See 59 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 60 61-f:: 62 Pass the `--no-reuse-object` option to `git-pack-objects`, see 63 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 64 65-q:: 66 Pass the `-q` option to 'git-pack-objects'. See 67 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. 68 69-n:: 70 Do not update the server information with 71 'git-update-server-info'. This option skips 72 updating local catalog files needed to publish 73 this repository (or a direct copy of it) 74 over HTTP or FTP. See linkgit:git-update-server-info[1]. 75 76--window=[N]:: 77--depth=[N]:: 78 These two options affect how the objects contained in the pack are 79 stored using delta compression. The objects are first internally 80 sorted by type, size and optionally names and compared against the 81 other objects within `--window` to see if using delta compression saves 82 space. `--depth` limits the maximum delta depth; making it too deep 83 affects the performance on the unpacker side, because delta data needs 84 to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object. 85 The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. 86 87--window-memory=[N]:: 88 This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`; 89 the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take 90 up more than N bytes in memory. This is useful in 91 repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run 92 out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take 93 advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. The 94 size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". 95 `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the 96 default. 97 98--max-pack-size=<n>:: 99 Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB. 100 If specified, multiple packfiles may be created. 101 The default is unlimited. 102 103 104Configuration 105------------- 106 107When configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` is set 108for the repository, the command passes `--delta-base-offset` 109option to 'git-pack-objects'; this typically results in slightly 110smaller packs, but the generated packs are incompatible with 111versions of git older than (and including) v1.4.3; do not set 112the variable in a repository that older version of git needs to 113be able to read (this includes repositories from which packs can 114be copied out over http or rsync, and people who obtained packs 115that way can try to use older git with it). 116 117 118Author 119------ 120Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 121 122Documentation 123-------------- 124Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 125 126SEE ALSO 127-------- 128linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] 129linkgit:git-prune-packed[1] 130 131GIT 132--- 133Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite