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

NAME         top

       git-verify-pack - Validate packed Git archive files

SYNOPSIS         top

       git verify-pack [-v|--verbose] [-s|--stat-only] [--] <pack>.idx ...

DESCRIPTION         top

       Reads given idx file for packed Git archive created with the git
       pack-objects command and verifies idx file and the corresponding pack
       file.

OPTIONS         top

       <pack>.idx ...
           The idx files to verify.

       -v, --verbose
           After verifying the pack, show list of objects contained in the
           pack and a histogram of delta chain length.

       -s, --stat-only
           Do not verify the pack contents; only show the histogram of delta
           chain length. With --verbose, list of objects is also shown.

       --
           Do not interpret any more arguments as options.

OUTPUT FORMAT         top

       When specifying the -v option the format used is:

           SHA-1 type size size-in-packfile offset-in-packfile

       for objects that are not deltified in the pack, and

           SHA-1 type size size-in-packfile offset-in-packfile depth base-SHA-1

       for objects that are deltified.

GIT         top

       Part of the git(1) suite

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the git (Git distributed version control system)
       project.  Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://git-scm.com/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this manual page,
       see ⟨http://git-scm.com/community⟩.  This page was obtained from the
       project's upstream Git repository ⟨https://github.com/git/git.git⟩ on
       2018-02-02.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that
       was found in the repository was 2018-01-23.)  If you discover any
       rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe
       there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
       corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
       (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       man-pages@man7.org

Git 2.7.0.rc1.5.gf3a             12/17/2015               GIT-VERIFY-PACK(1)

Pages that refer to this page: git(1)

HTML rendering created 2018-02-02 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface, maintainer of the Linux man-pages project. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH.