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

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>]

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)?

-- 
Matthieu