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⚡ TLDR: GIT-COUNT-OBJECTS (tldr-pages)

Count the number of unpacked objects and their disk consumption.

  • Count all objects and display the total disk usage
    git count-objects
  • Display a count of all objects and their total disk usage, displaying sizes in human-readable units
    git count-objects {{-H|--human-readable}}
  • Display more verbose information
    git count-objects {{-v|--verbose}}
  • Display more verbose information, displaying sizes in human-readable units
    git count-objects {{-H|--human-readable}} {{-v|--verbose}}
GIT-COUNT-OBJECTS(1)                         Git Manual                         GIT-COUNT-OBJECTS(1)

NAME
       git-count-objects - Count unpacked number of objects and their disk consumption

SYNOPSIS
       git count-objects [-v] [-H | --human-readable]


DESCRIPTION
       Counts the number of unpacked object files and disk space consumed by them, to help you
       decide when it is a good time to repack.

OPTIONS
       -v, --verbose
           Provide more detailed reports:

           count: the number of loose objects

           size: disk space consumed by loose objects, in KiB (unless -H is specified)

           in-pack: the number of in-pack objects

           size-pack: disk space consumed by the packs, in KiB (unless -H is specified)

           prune-packable: the number of loose objects that are also present in the packs. These
           objects could be pruned using git prune-packed.

           garbage: the number of files in the object database that are neither valid loose objects
           nor valid packs

           size-garbage: disk space consumed by garbage files, in KiB (unless -H is specified)

           alternate: absolute path of alternate object databases; may appear multiple times, one
           line per path. Note that if the path contains non-printable characters, it may be
           surrounded by double-quotes and contain C-style backslashed escape sequences.

       -H, --human-readable
           Print sizes in human readable format

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.43.0                                   07/02/2025                         GIT-COUNT-OBJECTS(1)

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