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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | COMMANDS | INFO KEYS | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | GIT | COLOPHON |
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GIT-REPO(1) Git Manual GIT-REPO(1)
git-repo - Retrieve information about the repository
git repo info [--format=(lines|nul) | -z] [--all | <key>...]
git repo info --keys [--format=(lines|nul) | -z]
git repo structure [--format=(table|lines|nul) | -z]
Retrieve information about the repository.
THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.
info [--format=(lines|nul) | -z] [--all | <key>...]
Retrieve metadata-related information about the current
repository. Only the requested data will be returned based on
their keys (see "INFO KEYS" section below).
The values are returned in the same order in which their
respective keys were requested. The --all flag requests the
values for all the available keys.
The output format can be chosen through the flag --format. Two
formats are supported:
lines
Output key-value pairs one per line using the = character
as the delimiter between the key and the value. Values
containing "unusual" characters are quoted as explained
for the configuration variable core.quotePath (see
git-config(1)). This is the default.
nul
Similar to lines, but using a newline character as the
delimiter between the key and the value and using a NUL
character after each value. This format is better suited
for being parsed by another applications than lines.
Unlike in the lines format, the values are never quoted.
-z is an alias for --format=nul.
info --keys [--format=(lines|nul) | -z]
List all the available keys, one per line. The output format
can be chosen through the flag --format. The following formats
are supported:
lines
Output the keys one per line. This is the default.
nul
Similar to lines, but using a NUL character after each
value.
structure [--format=(table|lines|nul) | -z]
Retrieve statistics about the current repository structure.
The following kinds of information are reported:
• Reference counts categorized by type
• Reachable object counts categorized by type
• Total inflated size of reachable objects by type
• Total disk size of reachable objects by type
• Largest reachable objects in the repository by type
The output format can be chosen through the flag --format.
Three formats are supported:
table
Outputs repository stats in a human-friendly table.
This format may change and is not intended for machine
parsing. This is the default format.
lines
Each line of output contains a key-value pair for a
repository stat. The = character is used to delimit
between the key and the value. Values containing
"unusual" characters are quoted as explained for the
configuration variable core.quotePath (see
git-config(1)).
nul
Similar to lines, but uses a NUL character to delimit
between key-value pairs instead of a newline. Also
uses a newline character as the delimiter between the
key and value instead of =. Unlike the lines format,
values containing "unusual" characters are never
quoted.
-z is an alias for --format=nul.
In order to obtain a set of values from git repo info, you should
provide the keys that identify them. Here’s a list of the
available keys and the values that they return:
layout.bare
true if this is a bare repository, otherwise false.
layout.shallow
true if this is a shallow repository, otherwise false.
object.format
The object format (hash algorithm) used in the repository.
references.format
The reference storage format. The valid values are:
files
for loose files with packed-refs. This is the default.
reftable
for the reftable format.
• Retrieves the reference format of the current repository:
git repo info references.format
• Retrieves whether the current repository is bare and whether
it is shallow using the nul format:
git repo info --format=nul layout.bare layout.shallow
git-rev-parse(1)
Part of the git(1) suite
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
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