OPTIONS¶
-a
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. Use with
-d. This
will clean up the objects that
git prune leaves behind, but
git fsck
--full --dangling 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.
Promisor packfiles are repacked separately: if there are packfiles
that have an associated ".promisor" file, these packfiles will be
repacked into another separate pack, and an empty ".promisor" file
corresponding to the new separate pack will be written.
-A
Same as
-a, unless
-d is used. Then any
unreachable objects in a previous pack become loose, unpacked objects, instead
of being left in the old pack. Unreachable objects are never intentionally
added to a pack, even when repacking. This option prevents unreachable objects
from being immediately 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
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 loose object files.
--cruft
Same as
-a, unless
-d is used. Then any
unreachable objects are packed into a separate cruft pack. Unreachable objects
can be pruned using the normal expiry rules with the next
git gc
invocation (see
git-gc(1)). Incompatible with
-k.
--cruft-expiration=<approxidate>
Expire unreachable objects older than
<approxidate> immediately instead of waiting for the next git
gc invocation. Only useful with --cruft -d.
--max-cruft-size=<n>
Repack cruft objects into packs as large as
<n> bytes before creating new packs. As long as there are enough
cruft packs smaller than <n>, repacking will cause a new cruft
pack to be created containing objects from any combined cruft packs, along
with any new unreachable objects. Cruft packs larger than <n>
will not be modified. When the new cruft pack is larger than <n>
bytes, it will be split into multiple packs, all of which are guaranteed to be
at most <n> bytes in size. Only useful with --cruft
-d.
--expire-to=<dir>
Write a cruft pack containing pruned objects (if any) to
the directory <dir>. This option is useful for keeping a copy of
any pruned objects in a separate directory as a backup. Only useful with
--cruft -d.
-l
-f
-F
-q, --quiet
Show no progress over the standard error stream and 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. This option skips updating local catalog files needed
to publish this repository (or a direct copy of it) over HTTP or FTP. See
git-update-server-info(1).
--window=<n>, --depth=<n>
These two options affect 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.
The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50. The
maximum depth is 4095.
--threads=<n>
This option is passed through to git
pack-objects.
--window-memory=<n>
This option provides an additional limit on top of
--window; the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
up more than
<n> bytes in memory. This is useful in repositories
with a mix of large and small objects to not run out of memory with a large
window, but still be able to take advantage of the large window for the
smaller objects. The size can be suffixed with "k", "m",
or "g".
--window-memory=0 makes memory usage unlimited. The
default is taken from the
pack.windowMemory configuration variable.
Note that the actual memory usage will be the limit multiplied by the number
of threads used by
git-pack-objects(1).
--max-pack-size=<n>
Maximum size of each output pack file. The size can be
suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". The minimum size
allowed is limited to 1 MiB. If specified, multiple packfiles may be created,
which also prevents the creation of a bitmap index. The default is unlimited,
unless the config variable pack.packSizeLimit is set. Note that this
option may result in a larger and slower repository; see the discussion in
pack.packSizeLimit.
--filter=<filter-spec>
Remove objects matching the filter specification from the
resulting packfile and put them into a separate packfile. Note that objects
used in the working directory are not filtered out. So for the split to fully
work, it’s best to perform it in a bare repo and to use the
-a
and
-d options along with this option. Also
--no-write-bitmap-index (or the
repack.writebitmaps config
option set to
false) should be used otherwise writing bitmap index will
fail, as it supposes a single packfile containing all the objects. See
git-rev-list(1) for valid
<filter-spec> forms.
--filter-to=<dir>
Write the pack containing filtered out objects to the
directory
<dir>. Only useful with
--filter. This can be
used for putting the pack on a separate object directory that is accessed
through the Git alternates mechanism.
WARNING: If the packfile
containing the filtered out objects is not accessible, the repo can become
corrupt as it might not be possible to access the objects in that packfile.
See the
objects and
objects/info/alternates sections of
gitrepository-layout(5).
-b, --write-bitmap-index
Write a reachability bitmap index as part of the repack.
This only makes sense when used with -a, -A or -m, as the
bitmaps must be able to refer to all reachable objects. This option overrides
the setting of repack.writeBitmaps. This option has no effect if
multiple packfiles are created, unless writing a MIDX (in which case a
multi-pack bitmap is created).
--pack-kept-objects
Include objects in .keep files when repacking.
Note that we still do not delete .keep packs after pack-objects
finishes. This means that we may duplicate objects, but this makes the option
safe to use when there are concurrent pushes or fetches. This option is
generally only useful if you are writing bitmaps with -b or
repack.writeBitmaps, as it ensures that the bitmapped packfile has the
necessary objects.
--keep-pack=<pack-name>
Exclude the given pack from repacking. This is the
equivalent of having .keep file on the pack. <pack-name>
is the pack file name without leading directory (e.g. pack-123.pack).
The option can be specified multiple times to keep multiple packs.
--unpack-unreachable=<when>
When loosening unreachable objects, do not bother
loosening any objects older than <when>. This can be used to
optimize out the write of any objects that would be immediately pruned by a
follow-up git prune.
-k, --keep-unreachable
When used with -ad, any unreachable objects from
existing packs will be appended to the end of the packfile instead of being
removed. In addition, any unreachable loose objects will be packed (and their
loose counterparts removed).
-i, --delta-islands
-g<factor>, --geometric=<factor>
Arrange resulting pack structure so that each successive
pack contains at least
<factor> times the number of objects as
the next-largest pack.
git repack ensures this by determining a "cut" of
packfiles that need to be repacked into one in order to ensure a geometric
progression. It picks the smallest set of packfiles such that as many of the
larger packfiles (by count of objects contained in that pack) may be left
intact.
Unlike other repack modes, the set of objects to pack is
determined uniquely by the set of packs being "rolled-up"; in
other words, the packs determined to need to be combined in order to restore
a geometric progression.
Loose objects are implicitly included in this "roll-up",
without respect to their reachability. This is subject to change in the
future.
When writing a multi-pack bitmap, git repack selects the
largest resulting pack as the preferred pack for object selection by the
MIDX (see git-multi-pack-index(1)).
-m, --write-midx