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diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4991f88 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +git-pack-objects(1) +=================== + +NAME +---- +git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--non-empty] + [--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] + {--stdout | base-name} < object-list + + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes a packed +archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output. + +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). + +'git-unpack-objects' command can read the packed archive and +expand the objects contained in the pack into "one-file +one-object" format; this is typically done by the smart-pull +commands when a pack is created on-the-fly for efficient network +transport by their peers. + +Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or +any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES) +enables git to read from such an archive. + +In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a compressed +whole, or as a difference from some other object. The latter is +often called a delta. + + +OPTIONS +------- +base-name:: + Write into a pair of files (.pack and .idx), using + <base-name> to determine the name of the created file. + When this option is used, the two files are written in + <base-name>-<SHA1>.{pack,idx} files. <SHA1> is a hash + of object names (currently in random order so it does + not have any useful meaning) to make the resulting + filename reasonably unique, and written to the standard + output of the command. + +--stdout:: + Write the pack contents (what would have been written to + .pack file) out to the standard output. + +--window and --depth:: + These two options affects how the objects contained in + the pack are stored using delta compression. The + objects are first internally sorted by type, size and + optionally names and compared against the other objects + within --window to see if using delta compression saves + space. --depth limits the maximum delta depth; making + it too deep affects the performance on the unpacker + side, because delta data needs to be applied that many + times to get to the necessary object. + +--incremental:: + This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored + even if it appears in the standard input. + +--local:: + This flag is similar to `--incremental`; instead of + ignoring all packed objects, it only ignores objects + that are packed and not in the local object store + (i.e. borrowed from an alternate). + +--non-empty:: + Only create a packed archive if it would contain at + least one object. + +-q:: + This flag makes the command not to report its progress + on the standard error stream. + +--no-reuse-delta:: + When creating a packed archive in a repository that + has existing packs, the command reuses existing deltas. + This sometimes results in a slightly suboptimal pack. + This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas + but compute them from scratch. + + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + +Documentation +------------- +Documentation by Junio C Hamano + +See Also +-------- +gitlink:git-repack[1] +gitlink:git-prune-packed[1] + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite + |