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

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Oct 31, 2008, 16:42 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqej1wra1c.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200810311726.57122.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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)?

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Matthieu