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@vger.kernel.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@vger.kernel.org
	   mailto:git@vger.kernel.org

Git 2.51.0			  2025-08-17		 GIT-PACK-REDUNDANT(1)