GIT-UPDATE-SERVER-INFO(1) Git Manual GIT-UPDATE-SERVER-INFO(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

git-update-server-info - Update auxiliary info file to help dumb servers

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

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

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

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.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

-f, --force

Update the info files from scratch.

# [OUTPUT](#OUTPUT)

Currently the command updates the following files. Please see [**gitrepository-layout**(5)](/man/os/git/gitrepository-layout.5) for a description of what they are for:

• objects/info/packs

• info/refs

# [GIT](#GIT)

Part of the [**git**(1)](/man/os/git/git.1) suite

2026-09-28 Git 2.56.0.1.g02cd7dbd

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Document: git-update-server-info(1) from git 2.56.0-r3 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git.git