From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Boyd Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: reword --thin description Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:52:51 -0800 Message-ID: <4B72E463.6060409@gmail.com> References: <1265778851-5397-1-git-send-email-bebarino@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 10 18:01:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NfFvv-0002kZ-BL for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:00:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755587Ab0BJRAw (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:52 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f190.google.com ([209.85.221.190]:39200 "EHLO mail-qy0-f190.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755351Ab0BJRAv (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:51 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 469 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:00:50 EST Received: by qyk28 with SMTP id 28so184105qyk.25 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:00:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KP2Duzb1etfCLJvwfuAY9g5oFJqOucOe/Wf5aVAvlTw=; b=lNPXHcdq3Zcd8ngG0OVZTQ1nktXHnhpSj7i+Xs9fIUtE8tPnbY2g0RTHbXFokBa3ej Xyt4+0MA012HfnrzwYtDKOx2+uFJQiSvmFiBRNn/p9lvVZz8OGLFUaN7qiOjCIwAl9db TfkdUsr0StKYvAQCrMxrNXLBNCHE7LQ4b9hV0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AoPGVlrgLcbmunH5118o0/RskzRZkmZ2eGC35mPwOc/979oVoF4Q9UAYe5kynYdyyx 988zvxpnK8NV/h/3lJ+uxQeAnHftfhtnr0cYBPxm8dLnaubK/Jc7SP6UxbIJx9aZPzCz Egt8XKDvsSO+LBul5CtPkK5DsVvUoCwtBY5N8= Received: by 10.224.48.72 with SMTP id q8mr287843qaf.2.1265820774860; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:52:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.5? (user-0c9haca.cable.mindspring.com [24.152.169.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm515473yxd.8.2010.02.10.08.52.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:52:53 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091214 Shredder/3.0.1pre In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 02/10/2010 08:07 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Both the old and the new text are bollocks. > > There is no extra cycles involved here. And linking this to a slow > connection is misleading. > > The point of --thin is to create a pack containing delta objects while > excluding the base objects they depend on when those objects are known > to exist in the receiver's repository already. Because base objects > are usually significantly bigger than delta objects, this results in a > large reduction in the amount of data to transfer. Thanks. Maybe this would more accurately describe the option? Create a pack containing only delta objects when the base objects the delta objects depend upon are present in the receiver's repository. This typically results in less data being transferred. Default: on