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

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Oct 31, 2008, 19:53 UTC
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> 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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Message 10 of 23 in “Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?”
  1. Thanassis TsiodrasOct 31, 2008
  2. Pierre HabouzitOct 31, 2008
  3. Thanassis TsiodrasOct 31, 2008
  4. Nicolas PitreOct 31, 2008
  5. Nicolas PitreOct 31, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiOct 31, 2008
  7. Thanassis TsiodrasOct 31, 2008
  8. Jakub NarebskiOct 31, 2008
  9. Matthieu MoyOct 31, 2008
  10. Nicolas PitreOct 31, 2008
  11. Thanassis TsiodrasNov 1, 2008
  12. Nicolas PitreNov 1, 2008
  13. Thanassis TsiodrasNov 3, 2008
  14. Pieter de BieNov 3, 2008
  15. Nicolas PitreNov 3, 2008
  16. Thanassis TsiodrasNov 3, 2008
  17. Nicolas PitreNov 4, 2008
  18. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2008
  19. Nicolas PitreNov 4, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2008
  21. Jean-Luc HerrenOct 31, 2008
  22. Matthieu MoyOct 31, 2008
  23. Thanassis TsiodrasOct 31, 2008

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