Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects,
pack everything referenced into a single pack.
Especially useful when packing a repository that is used
- for private development and there is no need to worry
- about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use
+ for private development. Use
with '-d'. This will clean up the objects that `git prune`
leaves behind, but `git fsck --full` shows as
dangling.
++
+Note that users fetching over dumb protocols will have to fetch the
+whole new pack in order to get any contained object, no matter how many
+other objects in that pack they already have locally.
-A::
Same as `-a`, unless '-d' is used. Then any unreachable
deleted by way of being left in the old pack and then
removed. Instead, the loose unreachable objects
will be pruned according to normal expiry rules
- with the next 'git-gc' invocation. See linkgit:git-gc[1].
+ with the next 'git gc' invocation. See linkgit:git-gc[1].
-d::
After packing, if the newly created packs make some
existing packs redundant, remove the redundant packs.
- Also run 'git-prune-packed' to remove redundant
+ Also run 'git prune-packed' to remove redundant
loose object files.
-l::
- Pass the `--local` option to 'git-pack-objects'. See
+ Pass the `--local` option to 'git pack-objects'. See
linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
-f::
linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
-q::
- Pass the `-q` option to 'git-pack-objects'. See
+ Pass the `-q` option to 'git pack-objects'. See
linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].
-n::
Do not update the server information with
- 'git-update-server-info'. This option skips
+ 'git update-server-info'. This option skips
updating local catalog files needed to publish
this repository (or a direct copy of it)
over HTTP or FTP. See linkgit:git-update-server-info[1].
When configuration variable `repack.UseDeltaBaseOffset` is set
for the repository, the command passes `--delta-base-offset`
-option to 'git-pack-objects'; this typically results in slightly
+option to 'git pack-objects'; this typically results in slightly
smaller packs, but the generated packs are incompatible with
versions of git older than (and including) v1.4.3; do not set
the variable in a repository that older version of git needs to