git-update-server-info - Man Page

• Update Git's auxiliary files for dumb HTTP serving: git update-server-info
• Rebuild the auxiliary info files from scratch: git update-server-info [-f|--force]

tldr.sh

git update-server-info [-f | --force]

A dumb server that does not do on-the-fly pack generations must have some auxiliary information files in $GIT_DIR/info and $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info directories to help clients discover what references and packs the server has​. This command generates such auxiliary files​.

-f,  --force

Update the info files from scratch​.

Currently the command updates the following files​. Please see gitrepository-layout(5) for a description of what they are for:

• objects/info/packs
• info/refs

Part of the git(1) suite