From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:37:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Making use of bitmaps for thin objects
Message-ID: <xmqq38l1kqw2.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140106151052.GB15489@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> We could probably teach index-pack an "--assume-refs-are-thin"
> option to optimize for this case, and have fetch-pack/receive-pack pass
> it whenever they know that delta-base-offset was negotiated.

I thought the existing negotiation merely means "I understand offset
encoded bases, so you are allowed to use that encoding", not "I will
not accept encoding other than the offset format, so you must use
that encoding for everything".