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<p>This program searches the <code>$GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY</code> for all objects that currently
exist in a pack file as well as in the independent object directories.</p>
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<p>All such extra objects are removed.</p>
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<p>A pack is a collection of objects, individually compressed, with delta
compression applied, stored in a single file, with an associated index file.</p>
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