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Add git-index-pack utility git-index-pack builds a pack index file for an existing packed archive. With this utility a packed archive which was transferred without the corresponding pack index can be added to objects/pack/ without repacking. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-12 21:01:31 +02:00
git-index-pack(1)
=================
NAME
----
git-index-pack - Build pack index file for an existing packed archive
SYNOPSIS
--------
Documentation: Reformatted SYNOPSIS for several commands Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <matthias@spinlock.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-18 15:39:34 +02:00
[verse]
Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git " Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-30 08:09:04 +02:00
'git index-pack' [-v] [-o <index-file>] <pack-file>
'git index-pack' --stdin [--fix-thin] [--keep] [-v] [-o <index-file>]
Documentation: Reformatted SYNOPSIS for several commands Signed-off-by: Matthias Kestenholz <matthias@spinlock.ch> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-18 15:39:34 +02:00
[<pack-file>]
Add git-index-pack utility git-index-pack builds a pack index file for an existing packed archive. With this utility a packed archive which was transferred without the corresponding pack index can be added to objects/pack/ without repacking. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-12 21:01:31 +02:00
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
Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git' Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-21 20:17:53 +01:00
objects/pack/ directory of a Git repository.
Add git-index-pack utility git-index-pack builds a pack index file for an existing packed archive. With this utility a packed archive which was transferred without the corresponding pack index can be added to objects/pack/ without repacking. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-12 21:01:31 +02:00
OPTIONS
-------
add progress status to index-pack This is more interesting to look at when performing a big fetch. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-26 05:32:59 +02:00
-v::
Be verbose about what is going on, including progress status.
Add git-index-pack utility git-index-pack builds a pack index file for an existing packed archive. With this utility a packed archive which was transferred without the corresponding pack index can be added to objects/pack/ without repacking. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-12 21:01:31 +02:00
-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).
enable index-pack streaming capability A new flag, --stdin, allows for a pack to be received over a stream. When this flag is provided, the pack content is written to either the named pack file or directly to the object repository under the same name as produced by git-repack. The pack index is written as well with the corresponding base name, unless the index name is overriden with -o. With this patch, git-index-pack could be used instead of git-unpack-objects when fetching remote objects but only with non "thin" packs for now. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-23 20:50:18 +02:00
--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
Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git' Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-21 20:17:53 +01:00
objects/pack/ directory of the current Git repository with
Teach git-index-pack how to keep a pack file. To prevent a race condition between `index-pack --stdin` and `repack -a -d` where the repack deletes the newly created pack file before any refs are updated to reference objects contained within it we mark the pack file as one that should be kept. This removes it from the list of packs that `repack -a -d` will consider for removal. Callers such as `receive-pack` which want to invoke `index-pack` should use this new --keep option to prevent the newly created pack and index file pair from being deleted before they have finished any related ref updates. Only after all ref updates have been finished should the associated .keep file be removed. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-29 10:41:59 +01:00
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
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax: both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist. The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands., 2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants. Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell, git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the $PATH.
2010-01-10 00:33:00 +01:00
'git repack'.
Add git-index-pack utility git-index-pack builds a pack index file for an existing packed archive. With this utility a packed archive which was transferred without the corresponding pack index can be added to objects/pack/ without repacking. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-12 21:01:31 +02:00
make index-pack able to complete thin packs. A new flag, --fix-thin, instructs git-index-pack to append any missing objects to a thin pack to make it self contained and indexable. Of course objects missing from the pack must be present elsewhere in the local repository. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-26 05:28:17 +02:00
--fix-thin::
Documentation: describe --thin more accurately The description for --thin was misleading and downright wrong. Correct it with some inspiration from the description of index-pack's --fix-thin and some background information from Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-18 10:10:28 +01:00
Fix a "thin" pack produced by `git pack-objects --thin` (see
linkgit: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.
Teach git-index-pack how to keep a pack file. To prevent a race condition between `index-pack --stdin` and `repack -a -d` where the repack deletes the newly created pack file before any refs are updated to reference objects contained within it we mark the pack file as one that should be kept. This removes it from the list of packs that `repack -a -d` will consider for removal. Callers such as `receive-pack` which want to invoke `index-pack` should use this new --keep option to prevent the newly created pack and index file pair from being deleted before they have finished any related ref updates. Only after all ref updates have been finished should the associated .keep file be removed. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-29 10:41:59 +01:00
--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
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax: both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist. The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands., 2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants. Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell, git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the $PATH.
2010-01-10 00:33:00 +01:00
simultaneous 'git repack' process from deleting
Teach git-index-pack how to keep a pack file. To prevent a race condition between `index-pack --stdin` and `repack -a -d` where the repack deletes the newly created pack file before any refs are updated to reference objects contained within it we mark the pack file as one that should be kept. This removes it from the list of packs that `repack -a -d` will consider for removal. Callers such as `receive-pack` which want to invoke `index-pack` should use this new --keep option to prevent the newly created pack and index file pair from being deleted before they have finished any related ref updates. Only after all ref updates have been finished should the associated .keep file be removed. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-29 10:41:59 +01:00
the newly constructed pack and index before refs can be
updated to use objects contained in the pack.
Use angles for placeholders consistently Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 19:31:15 +02:00
--keep=<msg>::
Teach git-index-pack how to keep a pack file. To prevent a race condition between `index-pack --stdin` and `repack -a -d` where the repack deletes the newly created pack file before any refs are updated to reference objects contained within it we mark the pack file as one that should be kept. This removes it from the list of packs that `repack -a -d` will consider for removal. Callers such as `receive-pack` which want to invoke `index-pack` should use this new --keep option to prevent the newly created pack and index file pair from being deleted before they have finished any related ref updates. Only after all ref updates have been finished should the associated .keep file be removed. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-29 10:41:59 +01:00
Like --keep create a .keep file before moving the index into
its final destination, but rather than creating an empty file
Use angles for placeholders consistently Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-10-08 19:31:15 +02:00
place '<msg>' followed by an LF into the .keep file. The '<msg>'
Teach git-index-pack how to keep a pack file. To prevent a race condition between `index-pack --stdin` and `repack -a -d` where the repack deletes the newly created pack file before any refs are updated to reference objects contained within it we mark the pack file as one that should be kept. This removes it from the list of packs that `repack -a -d` will consider for removal. Callers such as `receive-pack` which want to invoke `index-pack` should use this new --keep option to prevent the newly created pack and index file pair from being deleted before they have finished any related ref updates. Only after all ref updates have been finished should the associated .keep file be removed. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-29 10:41:59 +01:00
message can later be searched for within all .keep files to
locate any which have outlived their usefulness.
make index-pack able to complete thin packs. A new flag, --fix-thin, instructs git-index-pack to append any missing objects to a thin pack to make it self contained and indexable. Of course objects missing from the pack must be present elsewhere in the local repository. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-26 05:28:17 +02:00
document --index-version for index-pack and pack-objects Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-04-20 04:16:53 +02:00
--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.
index-pack: introduce checking mode Adds strict option, which bails out if the pack would introduces broken object or links in the repository. Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-25 22:46:12 +01:00
--strict::
Die, if the pack contains broken objects or links.
clone: open a shortcut for connectivity check In order to make sure the cloned repository is good, we run "rev-list --objects --not --all $new_refs" on the repository. This is expensive on large repositories. This patch attempts to mitigate the impact in this special case. In the "good" clone case, we only have one pack. If all of the following are met, we can be sure that all objects reachable from the new refs exist, which is the intention of running "rev-list ...": - all refs point to an object in the pack - there are no dangling pointers in any object in the pack - no objects in the pack point to objects outside the pack The second and third checks can be done with the help of index-pack as a slight variation of --strict check (which introduces a new condition for the shortcut: pack transfer must be used and the number of objects large enough to call index-pack). The first is checked in check_everything_connected after we get an "ok" from index-pack. "index-pack + new checks" is still faster than the current "index-pack + rev-list", which is the whole point of this patch. If any of the conditions fail, we fall back to the good old but expensive "rev-list ..". In that case it's even more expensive because we have to pay for the new checks in index-pack. But that should only happen when the other side is either buggy or malicious. Cloning linux-2.6 over file:// before after real 3m25.693s 2m53.050s user 5m2.037s 4m42.396s sys 0m13.750s 0m16.574s A more realistic test with ssh:// over wireless before after real 11m26.629s 10m4.213s user 5m43.196s 5m19.444s sys 0m35.812s 0m37.630s This shortcut is not applied to shallow clones, partly because shallow clones should have no more objects than a usual fetch and the cost of rev-list is acceptable, partly to avoid dealing with corner cases when grafting is involved. This shortcut does not apply to unpack-objects code path either because the number of objects must be small in order to trigger that code path. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-26 03:16:17 +02:00
--check-self-contained-and-connected::
Die if the pack contains broken links. For internal use only.
index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving This puts delta resolving on each base on a separate thread, one base cache per thread. Per-thread data is grouped in struct thread_local. When running with nr_threads == 1, no pthreads calls are made. The system essentially runs in non-thread mode. An experiment on a Xeon 24 core machine with git.git shows that performance does not increase proportional to the number of cores. So by default, we use maximum 3 cores. Some numbers with --threads from 1 to 16: 1..4 real 0m8.003s 0m5.307s 0m4.321s 0m3.830s user 0m7.720s 0m8.009s 0m8.133s 0m8.305s sys 0m0.224s 0m0.372s 0m0.360s 0m0.360s 5..8 real 0m3.727s 0m3.604s 0m3.332s 0m3.369s user 0m9.361s 0m9.817s 0m9.525s 0m9.769s sys 0m0.584s 0m0.624s 0m0.540s 0m0.560s 9..12 real 0m3.036s 0m3.139s 0m3.177s 0m2.961s user 0m8.977s 0m10.205s 0m9.737s 0m10.073s sys 0m0.596s 0m0.680s 0m0.684s 0m0.680s 13..16 real 0m2.985s 0m2.894s 0m2.975s 0m2.971s user 0m9.825s 0m10.573s 0m10.833s 0m11.361s sys 0m0.788s 0m0.732s 0m0.904s 0m1.016s On an Intel dual core and linux-2.6.git 1..4 real 2m37.789s 2m7.963s 2m0.920s 1m58.213s user 2m28.415s 2m52.325s 2m50.176s 2m41.187s sys 0m7.808s 0m11.181s 0m11.224s 0m10.731s Thanks Ramsay Jones for troubleshooting and support on MinGW platform. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-06 14:31:55 +02:00
--threads=<n>::
Specifies the number of threads to spawn when resolving
deltas. This requires that index-pack be compiled with
pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a warning.
This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search
window is however multiplied by the number of threads.
Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git' Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-01-21 20:17:53 +01:00
Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
index-pack: support multithreaded delta resolving This puts delta resolving on each base on a separate thread, one base cache per thread. Per-thread data is grouped in struct thread_local. When running with nr_threads == 1, no pthreads calls are made. The system essentially runs in non-thread mode. An experiment on a Xeon 24 core machine with git.git shows that performance does not increase proportional to the number of cores. So by default, we use maximum 3 cores. Some numbers with --threads from 1 to 16: 1..4 real 0m8.003s 0m5.307s 0m4.321s 0m3.830s user 0m7.720s 0m8.009s 0m8.133s 0m8.305s sys 0m0.224s 0m0.372s 0m0.360s 0m0.360s 5..8 real 0m3.727s 0m3.604s 0m3.332s 0m3.369s user 0m9.361s 0m9.817s 0m9.525s 0m9.769s sys 0m0.584s 0m0.624s 0m0.540s 0m0.560s 9..12 real 0m3.036s 0m3.139s 0m3.177s 0m2.961s user 0m8.977s 0m10.205s 0m9.737s 0m10.073s sys 0m0.596s 0m0.680s 0m0.684s 0m0.680s 13..16 real 0m2.985s 0m2.894s 0m2.975s 0m2.971s user 0m9.825s 0m10.573s 0m10.833s 0m11.361s sys 0m0.788s 0m0.732s 0m0.904s 0m1.016s On an Intel dual core and linux-2.6.git 1..4 real 2m37.789s 2m7.963s 2m0.920s 1m58.213s user 2m28.415s 2m52.325s 2m50.176s 2m41.187s sys 0m7.808s 0m11.181s 0m11.224s 0m10.731s Thanks Ramsay Jones for troubleshooting and support on MinGW platform. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-06 14:31:55 +02:00
and use maximum 3 threads.
make index-pack able to complete thin packs. A new flag, --fix-thin, instructs git-index-pack to append any missing objects to a thin pack to make it self contained and indexable. Of course objects missing from the pack must be present elsewhere in the local repository. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-10-26 05:28:17 +02:00
remove .keep pack lock files when done with refs update This makes both git-fetch and git-push (fetch-pack and receive-pack) safe against a possible race with aparallel git-repack -a -d that could prune the new pack while it is not yet referenced, and remove the .keep file after refs have been updated. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-01 23:06:25 +01:00
Note
----
Once the index has been created, the list of object names is sorted
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1" Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function. When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-04-15 19:49:04 +02:00
and the SHA-1 hash of that list is printed to stdout. If --stdin was
remove .keep pack lock files when done with refs update This makes both git-fetch and git-push (fetch-pack and receive-pack) safe against a possible race with aparallel git-repack -a -d that could prune the new pack while it is not yet referenced, and remove the .keep file after refs have been updated. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-01 23:06:25 +01:00
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
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax: both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist. The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands., 2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants. Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell, git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the $PATH.
2010-01-10 00:33:00 +01:00
.keep file used as a lock to prevent the race with 'git repack'
remove .keep pack lock files when done with refs update This makes both git-fetch and git-push (fetch-pack and receive-pack) safe against a possible race with aparallel git-repack -a -d that could prune the new pack while it is not yet referenced, and remove the .keep file after refs have been updated. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-11-01 23:06:25 +01:00
mentioned above.
Add git-index-pack utility git-index-pack builds a pack index file for an existing packed archive. With this utility a packed archive which was transferred without the corresponding pack index can be added to objects/pack/ without repacking. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-12 21:01:31 +02:00
GIT
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documentation: move git(7) to git(1) As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user level, it seems better to move it to man section 1. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06 09:07:32 +02:00
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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