Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Feb 12, 2007, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702121629270.1757@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vd54f85du.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Older clients do not understand the more efficient packfile format 
> (delta-base-offset encoding) that can be used with recent git.  The 
> feature is not turned on by default and is controlled by configuration 
> repack.usedeltabaseoffset. Whoever does the "git repack" above should 
> make sure he does not enable it with his $HOME/.gitconfig.

Of course, if we don't care about old GIT client using HTTP transport, then enabling this option won't affect GIT client using the native protocol as the delta-base-offset encoding can be translated into the legacy encoding on the fly depending on the client's advertized capabilities.

Nicolas