git-update-server-info

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Update auxiliary info file to help dumb servers

User commands 1 optionsgit-man 1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1

git update-server-info [-f | --force]

Options

-f--force

Update the info files from scratch.

DESCRIPTION

A dumb server that does not do on-the-fly pack generations must have some auxiliary information files in $GIT_DIR/info and $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info directories to help clients discover what references and packs the server has. This command generates such auxiliary files.

OUTPUT

Currently the command updates the following files. Please see gitrepository-layout(5) for a description of what they are for:

•objects/info/packs

•info/refs

GIT

Part of the git(1) suite