A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer set of objects
between two repositories, and also is an archival format which
is efficient to access. The packed archive format (.pack) is
-designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for
-random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx).
+designed to be self contained so that it can be unpacked without
+any further information, but for fast, random access to the objects
+in the pack, a pack index file (.idx) will be generated.
Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or
any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES)
as if all refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs` are specified to be
included.
+--include-tag::
+ Include unasked-for annotated tags if the object they
+ reference was included in the resulting packfile. This
+ can be useful to send new tags to native git clients.
+
--window=[N], --depth=[N]::
These two options affect how the objects contained in
the pack are stored using delta compression. The
This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor machines.
The required amount of memory for the delta search window is
however multiplied by the number of threads.
+ Specifying 0 will cause git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
+ and set the number of threads accordingly.
--index-version=<version>[,<offset>]::
This is intended to be used by the test suite only. It allows