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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Efficiency of initial clone from server
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:33:06 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Older clients do not understand the more efficient packfile format 
> (delta-base-offset encoding) that can be used with recent git.  The 
> feature is not turned on by default and is controlled by configuration 
> repack.usedeltabaseoffset. Whoever does the "git repack" above should 
> make sure he does not enable it with his $HOME/.gitconfig.

Of course, if we don't care about old GIT client using HTTP transport, 
then enabling this option won't affect GIT client using the native 
protocol as the delta-base-offset encoding can be translated into the 
legacy encoding on the fly depending on the client's advertized 
capabilities.


Nicolas