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 'git-index-pack' [-o <index-file>] <pack-file>
  12 'git-index-pack' --stdin [--fix-thin] [-o <index-file>] [<pack-file>]
  13
  14
  15 DESCRIPTION
  16 -----------
  17 Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the specified file, and
  18 builds a pack index file (.idx) for it.  The packed archive
  19 together with the pack index can then be placed in the
  20 objects/pack/ directory of a git repository.
  21
  22
  23 OPTIONS
  24 -------
  25 -o <index-file>::
  26         Write the generated pack index into the specified
  27         file.  Without this option the name of pack index
  28         file is constructed from the name of packed archive
  29         file by replacing .pack with .idx (and the program
  30         fails if the name of packed archive does not end
  31         with .pack).
  32
  33 --stdin::
  34         When this flag is provided, the pack is read from stdin
  35         instead and a copy is then written to <pack-file>. If
  36         <pack-file> is not specified, the pack is written to
  37         objects/pack/ directory of the current git repository with
  38         a default name determined from the pack content.
  39
  40 --fix-thin::
  41         It is possible for gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] to build
  42         "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form based on
  43         objects not included in the pack to reduce network traffic.
  44         Those objects are expected to be present on the receiving end
  45         and they must be included in the pack for that pack to be self
  46         contained and indexable. Without this option any attempt to
  47         index a thin pack will fail. This option only makes sense in
  48         conjonction with --stdin.
  49
  50
  51 Author
  52 ------
  53 Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
  54
  55 Documentation
  56 -------------
  57 Documentation by Sergey Vlasov
  58
  59 GIT
  60 ---
  61 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  62