From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:52:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/16] remote-helpers: Support custom transport options
Message-ID: <20091013205258.GD9261@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910131550170.32515@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > > > +'option thin'::
> > > > +	Transfer the data as a thin pack if possible.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone still use non-default thinness? 
> > 
> > Its a command line option on the porcelain.
> 
> Actually, the command line supports turning it on, and it defaults to on. 
> So I think your helper can safely assume that it's on. :)

For fetch it defaults to "on", but for push I think it defaults
to "off".  Turning it on when pushing on a low bandwidth network
connection might actually be useful to an end-user.

-- 
Shawn.