Git::R...Mempack(3pm)

✨ Git::Raw::Mempack — the manual page, but make it make sense ✨

okay bestie, welcome to Git::Raw::Mempack(3pm), aka the little in-memory git object database that could 💖 This is the Perl doc for it, freshly rewritten so it actually slaps.

Version check: version 0.90 — no cap, that's the one we're vibing with today 🎀

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🌈 NAME

Git::Raw::Mempack — it's the Git in-memory object database class. Like, git objects but living rent-free in your RAM instead of on disk. It's giving ✨main character storage✨.

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🦋 VERSION

version 0.90

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💅 SYNOPSIS

here's the whole ritual, copy it exactly, don't freestyle:

use Git::Raw;

my $mempack = Git::Raw::Mempack -> new;
my $odb = $repo -> odb;
$odb -> add_backend($mempack, 99);

# Create blobs, trees and commits...

# Index the packfile and persist
my $odb_path = catfile($repo -> path, 'objects');
my $tp = Git::Raw::TransferProgress -> new;
my $indexer = Git::Raw::Indexer -> new($odb_path, $odb);

my $pack = $mempack -> dump($repo);
$indexer -> append($pack, $tp);
$indexer -> commit($tp);

the way that you make a mempack, shove it into the object database as a backend with priority 99, build your blobs/trees/commits, then dump it into a packfile and hand that packfile to an indexer so it actually persists… yeah, that's the whole glow-up arc 🌸

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🌟 DESCRIPTION

A Git::Raw::Mempack represents a git in-memory object database. 🫶 That's it, that's the vibe — everything you write goes into memory first, and you get to decide when it becomes a real packfile.

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👑 METHODS

🌸 new( )

Create a new mempack backend. Fresh out the box, zero notes, ready to be somebody's backend 💜

🎀 dump( $repo )

Dump all the queued in-memory writes to a packfile. Returns the contents of the packfile. 📦✨

real talk though: It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that the generated packfile is available to the repository. The function hands you the goods and dips — it's not gonna make sure the repo can actually see it. That part is on you, bestie 😭

🦋 reset( )

Reset the mempack by clearing all the queued objects. poof 💀 everything queued? gone. clean slate, no drama, iconic behavior honestly.

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💖 AUTHOR

Jacques Germishuys <jacquesg@cpan.org> — the legend who wrote this, we stan 🌈

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🧚 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2016 Jacques Germishuys.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

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okay that's the whole page 🫶 run by perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19, and yes it is Git::R...Mempack(3pm) — the truncation is doing its little thing but the iykyk is real ⭐ bye bestie, go dump some packfiles 💅