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List:       git
Subject:    Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?
From:       Nicolas Pitre <nico () cam ! org>
Date:       2008-10-31 19:53:50
Message-ID: alpine.LFD.2.00.0810311549570.13034 () xanadu ! home
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanassis Tsiodras wrote:
> >  
> >> 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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