NAME
git-index-pack - Build pack index file for an existing
packed archive
SYNOPSIS
git-index-pack [-v] [-o <index-file>]
<pack-file> git-index-pack --stdin [--fix-thin]
[--keep] [-v] [-o <index-file>] [<pack-file>]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the
specified file, and builds a pack index file (.idx) for it. The
packed archive together with the pack index can then be placed in
the objects/pack/ directory of a git repository.
OPTIONS
- -v
- Be verbose about what is going on, including progress status.
- -o <index-file>
- Write the generated pack index into the specified file. Without
this option the name of pack index file is constructed from the
name of packed archive file by replacing .pack with .idx (and the
program fails if the name of packed archive does not end with
.pack).
- --stdin
- When this flag is provided, the pack is read from stdin instead
and a copy is then written to <pack-file>. If
<pack-file> is not specified, the pack is written to
objects/pack/ directory of the current git repository with a
default name determined from the pack content. If <pack-file>
is not specified consider using --keep to prevent a race condition
between this process and :git-repack(1)
- --fix-thin
- It is possible for git-pack-objects(1)
to build "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based
on objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
Those objects are expected to be present on the receiving end and
they must be included in the pack for that pack to be self
contained and indexable. Without this option any attempt to index a
thin pack will fail. This option only makes sense in conjunction
with --stdin.
- --keep
- Before moving the index into its final destination create an
empty .keep file for the associated pack file. This option is
usually necessary with --stdin to prevent a simultaneous
git-repack(1)
process from deleting the newly constructed pack and index before
refs can be updated to use objects contained in the pack.
- --keep=why
- Like --keep create a .keep file before moving the index into
its final destination, but rather than creating an empty file place
why followed by an LF into the .keep file. The why
message can later be searched for within all .keep files to locate
any which have outlived their usefulness.
NOTE
Once the index has been created, the list of object
names is sorted and the SHA1 hash of that list is printed to
stdout. If --stdin was also used then this is prefixed by either
"pack\t", or "keep\t" if a new .keep file was successfully created.
This is useful to remove a .keep file used as a lock to prevent the
race with git-repack(1)
mentioned above.
AUTHOR
Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Sergey Vlasov
GIT
Part of the (7) suite