GIT-COUNT-OBJECTS(1)

💅 git-count-objects(1) 💅

okay bestie, so this one's from the Git Manual and it's genuinely so underrated — like, everyone's out here repacking and nobody's checking the receipts first? not you tho. you're gonna count your objects like a main character. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

git-count-objects — counts how many unpacked objects you've got lying around, and how much disk they're eating 🍓

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so what this does is it counts the number of unpacked object files — those lil loose ones just vibing in your object database — plus the disk space they're consuming. and why do you care? because it literally helps you decide when it is a good time to repack. that's the whole point. vibe check your repo before you commit to the repack era. 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -v, --verbose — gives you the full detailed report, not just the headline number. the way that it breaks everything down?? obsessed. here's every single line it spits out:
  • 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. iykyk.
• -H, --human-readable — prints sizes in human readable format, so instead of doing math in your head at 2am you just get the numbers looking cute. 🫶

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👑 GIT 👑

Part of the git(1) suite — yeah, she's with the family. 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! slay. this was Git 2.56.0, dated 2026-09-27 — no cap, that's literally what it says at the bottom. go count some objects and have the day you deserve 🌈⭐💖