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| author | John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com> | 2023-05-13 00:34:42 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-05-13 00:54:14 +0300 |
| commit | 4fe42f326e10a547dc65dfe9e5ceaeeee02b98db (patch) | |
| tree | 47c2e26fc240e0bf6d8dad6a6d8c2f3f6ab0bcce /Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt | |
| parent | 826ae79fca263bc2b70c54fddacb1603c5ebb9c6 (diff) | |
pack-refs: teach pack-refs --include option
Allow users to be more selective over which refs to pack by adding an
--include option to git-pack-refs.
The existing options allow some measure of selectivity. By default
git-pack-refs packs all tags. --all can be used to include all refs,
and the previous commit added the ability to exclude certain refs with
--exclude.
While these knobs give the user some selection over which refs to pack,
it could be useful to give more control. For instance, a repository may
have a set of branches that are rarely updated and would benefit from
being packed. --include would allow the user to easily include a set of
branches to be packed while leaving everything else unpacked.
Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt index 546aa122df..284956acb3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-pack-refs.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-pack-refs - Pack heads and tags for efficient repository access SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git pack-refs' [--all] [--no-prune] [--exclude <pattern>] +'git pack-refs' [--all] [--no-prune] [--include <pattern>] [--exclude <pattern>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ with many branches of historical interests. The command usually removes loose refs under `$GIT_DIR/refs` hierarchy after packing them. This option tells it not to. +--include <pattern>:: + +Pack refs based on a `glob(7)` pattern. Repetitions of this option +accumulate inclusion patterns. If a ref is both included in `--include` and +`--exclude`, `--exclude` takes precedence. Using `--include` will preclude all +tags from being included by default. Symbolic refs and broken refs will never +be packed. When used with `--all`, it will be a noop. Use `--no-include` to clear +and reset the list of patterns. + --exclude <pattern>:: Do not pack refs matching the given `glob(7)` pattern. Repetitions of this option @@ -70,6 +79,9 @@ unpack it. When used with `--all`, pack only loose refs which do not match any of the provided `--exclude` patterns. +When used with `--include`, refs provided to `--include`, minus refs that are +provided to `--exclude` will be packed. + BUGS ---- |