1git-repack(1) 2============= 3v0.99.5, August 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-repack - Script used to pack a repository from a collection of 8objects into pack files. 9 10 11SYNOPSIS 12-------- 13'git-repack' [-a] [-d] 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17 18This script is used to combine all objects that do not currently 19reside in a "pack", into a pack. 20 21A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with 22delta compression applied, stored in a single file, with an 23associated index file. 24 25Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup 26engines, disk storage, etc. 27 28OPTIONS 29------- 30 31-a:: 32 Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects, 33 pack everything available into a single pack. 34 Especially useful when packing a repository that is used 35 for a private development and there no need to worry 36 about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use 37 with '-d'. 38 39-d:: 40 After packing, if the newly created packs make some 41 existing packs redundant, remove the redundant packs. 42 43 44Author 45------ 46Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 47 48Documentation 49-------------- 50Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> 51 52See-Also 53-------- 54git-pack-objects(1) git-prune-packed(1) 55 56GIT 57--- 58Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 59