Documentation/git-index-pack.txt

   1 git-index-pack(1)
   2 =================
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-index-pack - Build pack index file for an existing packed archive
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git index-pack' [-v] [-o <index-file>] <pack-file>
  13 'git index-pack' --stdin [--fix-thin] [--keep] [-v] [-o <index-file>]
  14                  [<pack-file>]
  15
  16
  17 DESCRIPTION
  18 -----------
  19 Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the specified file, and
  20 builds a pack index file (.idx) for it.  The packed archive
  21 together with the pack index can then be placed in the
  22 objects/pack/ directory of a git repository.
  23
  24
  25 OPTIONS
  26 -------
  27 -v::
  28         Be verbose about what is going on, including progress status.
  29
  30 -o <index-file>::
  31         Write the generated pack index into the specified
  32         file.  Without this option the name of pack index
  33         file is constructed from the name of packed archive
  34         file by replacing .pack with .idx (and the program
  35         fails if the name of packed archive does not end
  36         with .pack).
  37
  38 --stdin::
  39         When this flag is provided, the pack is read from stdin
  40         instead and a copy is then written to <pack-file>. If
  41         <pack-file> is not specified, the pack is written to
  42         objects/pack/ directory of the current git repository with
  43         a default name determined from the pack content.  If
  44         <pack-file> is not specified consider using --keep to
  45         prevent a race condition between this process and
  46         linkgit:git-repack[1].
  47
  48 --fix-thin::
  49         It is possible for linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] to build
  50         "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based on
  51         objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
  52         Those objects are expected to be present on the receiving end
  53         and they must be included in the pack for that pack to be self
  54         contained and indexable. Without this option any attempt to
  55         index a thin pack will fail. This option only makes sense in
  56         conjunction with --stdin.
  57
  58 --keep::
  59         Before moving the index into its final destination
  60         create an empty .keep file for the associated pack file.
  61         This option is usually necessary with --stdin to prevent a
  62         simultaneous linkgit:git-repack[1] process from deleting
  63         the newly constructed pack and index before refs can be
  64         updated to use objects contained in the pack.
  65
  66 --keep='why'::
  67         Like --keep create a .keep file before moving the index into
  68         its final destination, but rather than creating an empty file
  69         place 'why' followed by an LF into the .keep file.  The 'why'
  70         message can later be searched for within all .keep files to
  71         locate any which have outlived their usefulness.
  72
  73 --index-version=<version>[,<offset>]::
  74         This is intended to be used by the test suite only. It allows
  75         to force the version for the generated pack index, and to force
  76         64-bit index entries on objects located above the given offset.
  77
  78 --strict::
  79         Die, if the pack contains broken objects or links.
  80
  81
  82 Note
  83 ----
  84
  85 Once the index has been created, the list of object names is sorted
  86 and the SHA1 hash of that list is printed to stdout. If --stdin was
  87 also used then this is prefixed by either "pack\t", or "keep\t" if a
  88 new .keep file was successfully created. This is useful to remove a
  89 .keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with linkgit:git-repack[1]
  90 mentioned above.
  91
  92
  93 Author
  94 ------
  95 Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
  96
  97 Documentation
  98 -------------
  99 Documentation by Sergey Vlasov
 100
 101 GIT
 102 ---
 103 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite