12-14-2010
Of course xargs supports large filecounts, but putting that difference aside there would be extra overhead in loading and executing the xargs binary to start with, but this should be fairly minor unless your doing the same thing many times.
With GUN xargs you also get support for files with spaces in their names (via -0 parameter and -print0 in find). You can also suppress the run if the argument list is empty (via -r parameter).
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git-pack-redundant
GIT-PACK-REDUNDANT(1) Git Manual GIT-PACK-REDUNDANT(1)
NAME
git-pack-redundant - Find redundant pack files
SYNOPSIS
git pack-redundant [ --verbose ] [ --alt-odb ] < --all | .pack filename ... >
DESCRIPTION
This program computes which packs in your repository are redundant. The output is suitable for piping to xargs rm if you are in the root of
the repository.
git pack-redundant accepts a list of objects on standard input. Any objects given will be ignored when checking which packs are required.
This makes the following command useful when wanting to remove packs which contain unreachable objects.
git fsck --full --unreachable | cut -d ' ' -f3 | git pack-redundant --all | xargs rm
OPTIONS
--all
Processes all packs. Any filenames on the command line are ignored.
--alt-odb
Don't require objects present in packs from alternate object directories to be present in local packs.
--verbose
Outputs some statistics to stderr. Has a small performance penalty.
SEE ALSO
git-pack-objects(1) git-repack(1) git-prune-packed(1)
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 1.8.3.1 06/10/2014 GIT-PACK-REDUNDANT(1)