GIT-REPACK(1)

NAME
git-repack - Script used to pack a repository from a collection of objects into pack files.

SYNOPSIS
git-repack [-a] [-d] [-f] [-l] [-n] [-q]

DESCRIPTION
This script is used to combine all objects that do not currently reside in a "pack", into a pack.

A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with delta compression applied, stored in a single file, with an associated index file.

Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup engines, disk storage, etc.

OPTIONS

-a  Instead of incrementally packing the unpacked objects, pack everything available into a single pack. Especially useful when packing a repository that is used for a private development and there no need to worry about people fetching via dumb protocols from it. Use with -d.

-d  After packing, if the newly created packs make some existing packs redundant, remove the redundant packs. Also runs git-prune-packed(1).

-l  Pass the --local option to git pack-objects, see git-pack-objects(1).

-f  Pass the --no-reuse-delta option to git pack-objects, see git-pack-objects(1).

-q  Pass the -q option to git pack-objects, see git-pack-objects(1).

-n  Do not update the server information with git update-server-info.

AUTHOR
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>

SEE ALSO
git-pack-objects(1) git-prune-packed(1)

GIT
Part of the git(7) suite