git/Documentation/git-prune-packed.txt
Junio C Hamano b60daf0515 Make git-prune-packed a bit more chatty.
Steven Grimm noticed that git-repack's verbosity is inconsistent
because pack-objects is chatty and prune-packed is not.  This
makes the latter a bit more chatty and gives -q option to
squelch it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-12 15:10:29 -08:00

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git-prune-packed(1)
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NAME
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git-prune-packed - Program used to remove the extra object files that are now
residing in a pack file.
SYNOPSIS
--------
'git-prune-packed' [-n] [-q]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This program search the `$GIT_OBJECT_DIR` for all objects that currently
exist in a pack file as well as the independent object directories.
All such extra objects are removed.
A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with delta
compression applied, stored in a single file, with an associated index file.
Packs are used to reduce the load on mirror systems, backup engines,
disk storage, etc.
OPTIONS
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-n::
Don't actually remove any objects, only show those that would have been
removed.
-q::
Squelch the progress indicator.
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation
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Documentation by Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
See Also
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gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]
gitlink:git-repack[1]
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite