GIT-INDEX-PACK(1)                                          Git Manual                                          GIT-INDEX-PACK(1)



NAME
       git-index-pack - Build pack index file for an existing packed archive

SYNOPSIS
       git index-pack [-v] [-o <index-file>] <pack-file>
       git index-pack --stdin [--fix-thin] [--keep] [-v] [-o <index-file>]
                        [<pack-file>]


DESCRIPTION
       Reads a packed archive (.pack) from the specified file, and builds a pack index file (.idx) for it. The packed archive
       together with the pack index can then be placed in the objects/pack/ directory of a git repository.

OPTIONS
       -v
           Be verbose about what is going on, including progress status.

       -o <index-file>
           Write the generated pack index into the specified file. Without this option the name of pack index file is
           constructed from the name of packed archive file by replacing .pack with .idx (and the program fails if the name of
           packed archive does not end with .pack).

       --stdin
           When this flag is provided, the pack is read from stdin instead and a copy is then written to <pack-file>. If
           <pack-file> is not specified, the pack is written to objects/pack/ directory of the current git repository with a
           default name determined from the pack content. If <pack-file> is not specified consider using --keep to prevent a
           race condition between this process and git repack.

       --fix-thin
           Fix a "thin" pack produced by git pack-objects --thin (see git-pack-objects(1) for details) by adding the excluded
           objects the deltified objects are based on to the pack. This option only makes sense in conjunction with --stdin.

       --keep
           Before moving the index into its final destination create an empty .keep file for the associated pack file. This
           option is usually necessary with --stdin to prevent a simultaneous git repack process from deleting the newly
           constructed pack and index before refs can be updated to use objects contained in the pack.

       --keep=<msg>
           Like --keep create a .keep file before moving the index into its final destination, but rather than creating an empty
           file place <msg> followed by an LF into the .keep file. The <msg> message can later be searched for within all .keep
           files to locate any which have outlived their usefulness.

       --index-version=<version>[,<offset>]
           This is intended to be used by the test suite only. It allows to force the version for the generated pack index, and
           to force 64-bit index entries on objects located above the given offset.

       --strict
           Die, if the pack contains broken objects or links.

NOTE
       Once the index has been created, the list of object names is sorted and the SHA1 hash of that list is printed to stdout.
       If --stdin was also used then this is prefixed by either "pack\t", or "keep\t" if a new .keep file was successfully
       created. This is useful to remove a .keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with git repack mentioned above.

AUTHOR
       Written by Sergey Vlasov <vsuATaltlinux.ru[1]>

DOCUMENTATION
       Documentation by Sergey Vlasov

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
        1. vsuATaltlinux.ru
           mailto:vsuATaltlinux.ru



Git 1.7.4.4                                                04/11/2011                                          GIT-INDEX-PACK(1)