Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?

Thanks to everybody for your help.

I will setup an alias to always use "git push --thin".
For the reverse direction, I don't see a --thin for "git pull",

My understanding is that "git pull" is optimal,
and does what --thin does for push anyway, right?

On 10/31/08, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

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Thanassis Tsiodras wrote:

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So I have to git-gc on my side (after the commits), git-gc on the
remote,
and then git-push?

Perhaps I haven't made myself clear.

On the local side: git-commit creates loose (compressed, but not
deltified) objects. git-gc packs and deltifies.

On the remote side (for smart protocols, i.e. git and ssh): git
creates _thin_ pack, deltified;

I don't understand this point: the OP talks about pushing, so isn't
the pack created on the _local_ machine (and then sent to the remote)?

Yes, the pack is created on the fly when pushing, regardless if the repo
is already packed or not locally.  The only difference a locally packed
repo provides is a shorter "Compressing objects" phase when pushing
that's all. The packedness of the remote has no effect at all.


Nicolas

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