git-count-objects(1)

git-count-objects1

Count unpacked number of objects and their disk consumption

Usage

git count-objects [-v] [{-H | --human-readable}]

Overview

Counts the number of unpacked object files and disk space consumed by them, to help you decide when it is a good time to repack.

Options

-v, --verbose

Provide more detailed reports:

count: the number of loose objects

size: disk space consumed by loose objects, in KiB (unless -H is specified)

in-pack: the number of in-pack objects

packs: the number of pack files

size-pack: disk space consumed by the packs, in KiB (unless -H is specified)

prune-packable: the number of loose objects that are also present in the packs. These objects could be pruned using git prune-packed.

garbage: the number of files in the object database that are neither valid loose objects nor valid packs

size-garbage: disk space consumed by garbage files, in KiB (unless -H is specified)

alternate: absolute path of alternate object databases; may appear multiple times, one line per path. Note that if the path contains non-printable characters, it may be surrounded by double-quotes and contain C-style backslashed escape sequences.

-H, --human-readable

Print sizes in human readable format

Git

Part of the git(1) suite

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 10 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9
  7. 10
  8. 11
  9. 12
  10. 13
  11. Arch

--human-readable since Debian 8 (Jessie); --verbose since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -H since Debian 8 (Jessie).

From git 2.56.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.