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

NAME
       git-pack-redundant - Find redundant pack files

SYNOPSIS
       git pack-redundant [--verbose] [--alt-odb] (--all | <pack-filename>...)


WARNING
       git pack-redundant has been deprecated and is scheduled for removal in a future version of
       Git. Because it can only remove entire duplicate packs and not individual duplicate objects,
       it is generally not a useful tool for reducing repository size. You are better off using git
       gc to do so, which will put objects into a new pack, removing duplicates.

       Running pack-redundant without the --i-still-use-this flag will fail in this release. If you
       believe you have a use case for which pack-redundant is better suited and oppose this
       removal, please contact the Git mailing list at git AT vger.org[1]. More information
       about the list is available at https://git-scm.com/community.

DESCRIPTION
       This program computes which packs in your repository are redundant. The output is suitable
       for piping to xargs rm if you are in the root of the repository.

       git pack-redundant accepts a list of objects on standard input. Any objects given will be
       ignored when checking which packs are required. This makes the following command useful when
       wanting to remove packs which contain unreachable objects.

       git fsck --full --unreachable | cut -d ' ' -f3 | \ git pack-redundant --all | xargs rm

OPTIONS
       --all
           Processes all packs. Any filenames on the command line are ignored.

       --alt-odb
           Don’t require objects present in packs from alternate object database (odb) directories
           to be present in local packs.

       --verbose
           Outputs some statistics to stderr. Has a small performance penalty.

SEE ALSO
       git-pack-objects(1) git-repack(1) git-prune-packed(1)

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
        1. git AT vger.org
           mailto:git AT vger.org

Git 2.43.0                                   07/02/2025                        GIT-PACK-REDUNDANT(1)