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GITREPOSITORY-LAYOU(5)		  Git Manual		GITREPOSITORY-LAYOU(5)

NAME
       gitrepository-layout - Git Repository Layout

SYNOPSIS
       $GIT_DIR/*

DESCRIPTION
       A Git repository comes in two different flavours:

       ·   a .git directory at the root of the working tree;

       ·   a <project>.git directory that is a bare repository (i.e. without
	   its own working tree), that is typically used for exchanging
	   histories with others by pushing into it and fetching from it.

       Note: Also you can have a plain text file .git at the root of your
       working tree, containing gitdir: <path> to point at the real directory
       that has the repository. This mechanism is often used for a working
       tree of a submodule checkout, to allow you in the containing
       superproject to git checkout a branch that does not have the submodule.
       The checkout has to remove the entire submodule working tree, without
       losing the submodule repository.

       These things may exist in a Git repository.

       objects
	   Object store associated with this repository. Usually an object
	   store is self sufficient (i.e. all the objects that are referred to
	   by an object found in it are also found in it), but there are a few
	   ways to violate it.

	    1. You could have an incomplete but locally usable repository by
	       creating a shallow clone. See git-clone(1).

	    2. You could be using the objects/info/alternates or
	       $GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES mechanisms to borrow objects
	       from other object stores. A repository with this kind of
	       incomplete object store is not suitable to be published for use
	       with dumb transports but otherwise is OK as long as
	       objects/info/alternates points at the object stores it borrows
	       from.

       objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]
	   A newly created object is stored in its own file. The objects are
	   splayed over 256 subdirectories using the first two characters of
	   the sha1 object name to keep the number of directory entries in
	   objects itself to a manageable number. Objects found here are often
	   called unpacked (or loose) objects.

       objects/pack
	   Packs (files that store many object in compressed form, along with
	   index files to allow them to be randomly accessed) are found in
	   this directory.

       objects/info
	   Additional information about the object store is recorded in this
	   directory.

       objects/info/packs
	   This file is to help dumb transports discover what packs are
	   available in this object store. Whenever a pack is added or
	   removed, git update-server-info should be run to keep this file
	   up-to-date if the repository is published for dumb transports.  git
	   repack does this by default.

       objects/info/alternates
	   This file records paths to alternate object stores that this object
	   store borrows objects from, one pathname per line. Note that not
	   only native Git tools use it locally, but the HTTP fetcher also
	   tries to use it remotely; this will usually work if you have
	   relative paths (relative to the object database, not to the
	   repository!) in your alternates file, but it will not work if you
	   use absolute paths unless the absolute path in filesystem and web
	   URL is the same. See also objects/info/http-alternates.

       objects/info/http-alternates
	   This file records URLs to alternate object stores that this object
	   store borrows objects from, to be used when the repository is
	   fetched over HTTP.

       refs
	   References are stored in subdirectories of this directory. The git
	   prune command knows to preserve objects reachable from refs found
	   in this directory and its subdirectories.

       refs/heads/name
	   records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branch name

       refs/tags/name
	   records any object name (not necessarily a commit object, or a tag
	   object that points at a commit object).

       refs/remotes/name
	   records tip-of-the-tree commit objects of branches copied from a
	   remote repository.

       refs/replace/<obj-sha1>
	   records the SHA-1 of the object that replaces <obj-sha1>. This is
	   similar to info/grafts and is internally used and maintained by
	   git-replace(1). Such refs can be exchanged between repositories
	   while grafts are not.

       packed-refs
	   records the same information as refs/heads/, refs/tags/, and
	   friends record in a more efficient way. See git-pack-refs(1).

       HEAD
	   A symref (see glossary) to the refs/heads/ namespace describing the
	   currently active branch. It does not mean much if the repository is
	   not associated with any working tree (i.e. a bare repository), but
	   a valid Git repository must have the HEAD file; some porcelains may
	   use it to guess the designated "default" branch of the repository
	   (usually master). It is legal if the named branch name does not
	   (yet) exist. In some legacy setups, it is a symbolic link instead
	   of a symref that points at the current branch.

	   HEAD can also record a specific commit directly, instead of being a
	   symref to point at the current branch. Such a state is often called
	   detached HEAD.  See git-checkout(1) for details.

       branches
	   A slightly deprecated way to store shorthands to be used to specify
	   a URL to git fetch, git pull and git push. A file can be stored as
	   branches/<name> and then name can be given to these commands in
	   place of repository argument. See the REMOTES section in git-
	   fetch(1) for details. This mechanism is legacy and not likely to be
	   found in modern repositories.

       hooks
	   Hooks are customization scripts used by various Git commands. A
	   handful of sample hooks are installed when git init is run, but all
	   of them are disabled by default. To enable, the .sample suffix has
	   to be removed from the filename by renaming. Read githooks(5) for
	   more details about each hook.

       index
	   The current index file for the repository. It is usually not found
	   in a bare repository.

       info
	   Additional information about the repository is recorded in this
	   directory.

       info/refs
	   This file helps dumb transports discover what refs are available in
	   this repository. If the repository is published for dumb
	   transports, this file should be regenerated by git
	   update-server-info every time a tag or branch is created or
	   modified. This is normally done from the hooks/update hook, which
	   is run by the git-receive-pack command when you git push into the
	   repository.

       info/grafts
	   This file records fake commit ancestry information, to pretend the
	   set of parents a commit has is different from how the commit was
	   actually created. One record per line describes a commit and its
	   fake parents by listing their 40-byte hexadecimal object names
	   separated by a space and terminated by a newline.

       info/exclude
	   This file, by convention among Porcelains, stores the exclude
	   pattern list.  .gitignore is the per-directory ignore file.	git
	   status, git add, git rm and git clean look at it but the core Git
	   commands do not look at it. See also: gitignore(5).

       info/sparse-checkout
	   This file stores sparse checkout patterns. See also: git-read-
	   tree(1).

       remotes
	   Stores shorthands for URL and default refnames for use when
	   interacting with remote repositories via git fetch, git pull and
	   git push commands. See the REMOTES section in git-fetch(1) for
	   details. This mechanism is legacy and not likely to be found in
	   modern repositories.

       logs
	   Records of changes made to refs are stored in this directory. See
	   git-update-ref(1) for more information.

       logs/refs/heads/name
	   Records all changes made to the branch tip named name.

       logs/refs/tags/name
	   Records all changes made to the tag named name.

       shallow
	   This is similar to info/grafts but is internally used and
	   maintained by shallow clone mechanism. See --depth option to git-
	   clone(1) and git-fetch(1).

       modules
	   Contains the git-repositories of the submodules.

SEE ALSO
       git-init(1), git-clone(1), git-fetch(1), git-pack-refs(1), git-gc(1),
       git-checkout(1), gitglossary(7), The Git User’s Manual[1]

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite.

NOTES
	1. The Git User’s Manual
	   file:///usr/share/doc/git-doc/user-manual.html

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