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Re: [JGIT PATCH 2/1] Honor repack.usedeltabaseoffset when fetching packs

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
May 1, 2009, 23:19 UTC
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On Fri, 1 May 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> If the local receiving repository has disabled the use of delta base
> offset, for example to retain compatibility with older versions of
> Git that predate OFS_DELTA, we shouldn't ask for ofs-delta support
> when we obtain a pack from the remote server.

Good point. I doubt it actually matters in practice or we would have heard about some complaints by now. But for consistency sake I should produce a similar patch for C git as well.

Nicolas
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