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NAME

git-pack-redundant - Find redundant pack files

SYNOPSIS

git pack-redundant [--verbose] [--alt-odb] (--all | <pack-filename>...)

WARNING

git pack-redundant has been deprecated and is scheduled for removal
in a future version of Git. Because it can only remove entire
duplicate packs and not individual duplicate objects, it is generally
not a useful tool for reducing repository size. You are better off
using git gc to do so, which will put objects into a new pack,
removing duplicates.

Running pack-redundant without the --i-still-use-this flag will fail
in this release. If you believe you have a use case for which
pack-redundant is better suited and oppose this removal, please
contact the Git mailing list at git@vger.kernel.org[1]. More
information about the list is available at
https://git-scm.com/community.

DESCRIPTION

This program computes which packs in your repository are redundant.
The output is suitable for piping to xargs rm if you are in the root
of the repository.

git pack-redundant accepts a list of objects on standard input. Any
objects given will be ignored when checking which packs are required.
This makes the following command useful when wanting to remove packs
which contain unreachable objects.

git fsck --full --unreachable | cut -d ' ' -f3 | \ git pack-redundant
--all | xargs rm

OPTIONS

--all
Processes all packs. Any filenames on the command line are
ignored.

--alt-odb
Don't require objects present in packs from alternate object
database (odb) directories to be present in local packs.

--verbose
Outputs some statistics to stderr. Has a small performance
penalty.

SEE ALSO

git-pack-objects(1) git-repack(1) git-prune-packed(1)

GIT

Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

1. git@vger.kernel.org
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org

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