5 You may find these things in your git repository (`.git`
6 directory for a repository associated with your working tree, or
7 `'project'.git` directory for a public 'naked' repository).
10 Object store associated with this repository. Usually
11 an object store is self sufficient (i.e. all the objects
12 that are referred to by an object found in it are also
13 found in it), but there are couple of ways to violate
16 . You could populate the repository by running a commit walker
17 without `-a` option. Depending on which options are given, you
18 could have only commit objects without associated blobs and
19 trees this way, for example. A repository with this kind of
20 incomplete object store is not suitable to be published to the
21 outside world but sometimes useful for private repository.
22 . You can be using `objects/info/alternates` mechanism, or
23 `$GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES` mechanism to 'borrow'
24 objects from other object stores. A repository with this kind
25 of incompete object store is not suitable to be published for
26 use with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as
27 `objects/info/alternates` points at the right object stores
30 objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]::
31 Traditionally, each object is stored in its own file.
32 They are split into 256 subdirectories using the first
33 two letters from its object name to keep the number of
34 directory entries `objects` directory itself needs to
35 hold. Objects found here are often called 'unpacked'
39 Packs (files that store many object in compressed form,
40 along with index files to allow them to be randomly
41 accessed) are found in this directory.
44 Additional information about the object store is
45 recorded in this directory.
48 This file is to help dumb transports discover what packs
49 are available in this object store. Whenever a pack is
50 added or removed, `git update-server-info` should be run
51 to keep this file up-to-date if the repository is
52 published for dumb transports. `git repack` does this
55 objects/info/alternates::
56 This file records absolute filesystem paths of alternate
57 object stores that this object store borrows objects
58 from, one pathname per line.
61 References are stored in subdirectories of this
62 directory. The `git prune` command knows to keep
63 objects reachable from refs found in this directory and
67 records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branch `name`
70 records any object name (not necessarily a commit
71 object, or a tag object that points at a commit object).
74 A symlink of the form `refs/heads/'name'` to point at
75 the current branch, if exists. It does not mean much if
76 the repository is not associated with any working tree
77 (i.e. 'naked' repository), but a valid git repository
78 *must* have such a symlink here. It is legal if the
79 named branch 'name' does not (yet) exist.
82 A slightly deprecated way to store shorthands to be used
83 to specify URL to `git fetch`, `git pull` and `git push`
84 commands is to store a file in `branches/'name'` and
85 give 'name' to these commands in place of 'repository'
89 Hooks are customization scripts used by various git
90 commands. A handful of sample hooks are installed when
91 `git init-db` is run, but all of them are disabled by
92 default. To enable, they need to be made executable.
95 The current index file for the repository. It is
96 usually not found in a naked repository.
99 Additional information about the repository is recorded
103 This file is to help dumb transports to discover what
104 refs are available in this repository. Whenever you
105 create/delete a new branch or a new tag, `git
106 update-server-info` should be run to keep this file
107 up-to-date if the repository is published for dumb
108 transports. The `git-receive-pack` command, which is
109 run on a remote repository when you `git push` into it,
110 runs `hooks/update` hook to help you achive this.
113 This file records fake commit ancestry information, to
114 pretend the set of parents a commit has is different
115 from how the commit was actually created. One record
116 per line describes a commit and its fake parents by
117 listing their 40-byte hexadecimal object names separated
118 by a space and terminated by a newline.
121 No higher-level tool currently takes advantage of this
122 file, but it is generated when `git update-server-info`
123 is run. It records the commit ancestry information of
124 the commits in this repository in a concise binary
125 format, and can be read with `git-show-rev-cache`.
128 This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the
129 exclude pattern list. `git status` looks at it, but
130 otherwise it is not looked at by any of the core GIT
134 Stores shorthands to be used to give URL and default
135 refnames to interact with remote repository to `git
136 fetch`, `git pull` and `git push` commands.