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Currently git-push displays progress status for the local packing of objects to send, but nothing once it starts to push it over the connection. Having progress status in that later case is especially nice when pushing lots of objects over a slow network link. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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git-pack-objects(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-pack-objects - Create a packed archive of objects
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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'git-pack-objects' [-q] [--no-reuse-delta] [--delta-base-offset] [--non-empty]
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[--local] [--incremental] [--window=N] [--depth=N] [--all-progress]
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[--revs [--unpacked | --all]*] [--stdout | base-name] < object-list
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Reads list of objects from the standard input, and writes a packed
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archive with specified base-name, or to the standard output.
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A packed archive is an efficient way to transfer set of objects
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between two repositories, and also is an archival format which
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is efficient to access. The packed archive format (.pack) is
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designed to be unpackable without having anything else, but for
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random access, accompanied with the pack index file (.idx).
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'git-unpack-objects' command can read the packed archive and
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expand the objects contained in the pack into "one-file
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one-object" format; this is typically done by the smart-pull
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commands when a pack is created on-the-fly for efficient network
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transport by their peers.
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Placing both in the pack/ subdirectory of $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY (or
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any of the directories on $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES)
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enables git to read from such an archive.
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In a packed archive, an object is either stored as a compressed
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whole, or as a difference from some other object. The latter is
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often called a delta.
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OPTIONS
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base-name::
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Write into a pair of files (.pack and .idx), using
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<base-name> to determine the name of the created file.
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When this option is used, the two files are written in
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<base-name>-<SHA1>.{pack,idx} files. <SHA1> is a hash
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of the sorted object names to make the resulting filename
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based on the pack content, and written to the standard
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output of the command.
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--stdout::
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Write the pack contents (what would have been written to
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.pack file) out to the standard output.
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--revs::
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Read the revision arguments from the standard input, instead of
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individual object names. The revision arguments are processed
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the same way as gitlink:git-rev-list[1] with `--objects` flag
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uses its `commit` arguments to build the list of objects it
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outputs. The objects on the resulting list are packed.
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--unpacked::
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This implies `--revs`. When processing the list of
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revision arguments read from the standard input, limit
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the objects packed to those that are not already packed.
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--all::
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This implies `--revs`. In addition to the list of
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revision arguments read from the standard input, pretend
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as if all refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs` are specified to be
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included.
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--window=[N], --depth=[N]::
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These two options affect how the objects contained in
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the pack are stored using delta compression. The
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objects are first internally sorted by type, size and
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optionally names and compared against the other objects
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within --window to see if using delta compression saves
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space. --depth limits the maximum delta depth; making
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it too deep affects the performance on the unpacker
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side, because delta data needs to be applied that many
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times to get to the necessary object.
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The default value for both --window and --depth is 10.
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--incremental::
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This flag causes an object already in a pack ignored
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even if it appears in the standard input.
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--local::
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This flag is similar to `--incremental`; instead of
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ignoring all packed objects, it only ignores objects
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that are packed and not in the local object store
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(i.e. borrowed from an alternate).
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--non-empty::
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Only create a packed archive if it would contain at
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least one object.
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-q::
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This flag makes the command not to report its progress
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on the standard error stream.
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--no-reuse-delta::
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When creating a packed archive in a repository that
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has existing packs, the command reuses existing deltas.
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This sometimes results in a slightly suboptimal pack.
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This flag tells the command not to reuse existing deltas
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but compute them from scratch.
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--delta-base-offset::
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A packed archive can express base object of a delta as
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either 20-byte object name or as an offset in the
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stream, but older version of git does not understand the
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latter. By default, git-pack-objects only uses the
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former format for better compatibility. This option
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allows the command to use the latter format for
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compactness. Depending on the average delta chain
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length, this option typically shrinks the resulting
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packfile by 3-5 per-cent.
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation
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-------------
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano
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See Also
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--------
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gitlink:git-rev-list[1]
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gitlink:git-repack[1]
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gitlink:git-prune-packed[1]
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GIT
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---
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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