libra pack-objects

Command reference for `libra pack-objects`

Create a pack from object ids read on stdin.

Hidden / internal plumbing. pack-objects is not part of Libra's public Git-compatibility surface (it is hidden from libra --help). It exists for internal and integration use — most users want libra repack instead.

Synopsis

libra pack-objects [--stdout] < object-ids

Description

pack-objects reads object ids from standard input — one per line, and tolerant of the <id> <path> form printed by libra rev-list --objects (only the leading id is used) — and encodes those objects into a single pack through the shared pack writer.

By default the pack is written into .libra/objects/pack/ and the new pack-<checksum> stem is printed to stdout. With --stdout the raw pack bytes are streamed to standard output instead, for piping into libra index-pack.

Options

Option	Description
`--stdout`	Write the raw pack bytes to stdout instead of into `objects/pack`.

Exit status

0 — a pack was produced.
128 — no object ids were supplied on stdin.
other non-zero — run outside a repository, or a pack could not be encoded.

Compatibility

A deliberately small subset of git pack-objects: input is a plain id list on stdin (no --revs/--all history walking), the output pack is always undeltified, and reachability/thin-pack options are not supported.

Examples

# Pack the objects reachable from HEAD.
libra rev-list --objects HEAD | libra pack-objects

# Stream a pack to stdout and index it in one pipeline.
libra rev-list --objects HEAD | libra pack-objects --stdout | libra index-pack --stdin -o out.idx