From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 10:16:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git exproll: steps to tackle gc aggression
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen wrote:
>> Right. transport_get() is also run for push and it sets
>> smart_options->thin = 1 unconditionally.
>
> So, it looks like smart http implies the thin capability.

"smart_options" is a bit misleading. This applies to both smart
http://, git:// and ssh://

> I think
> sop's patch (6 years ago) was about turning off thin on dumb http

No, dumb http walks through the remote repository object database,
there's no temporary pack created for transferring data. Dumb http has
nothing to do with this flag.
-- 
Duy