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

["Thanassis Tsiodras" <ttsiodras@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think you can use clean / smudge filter in gitattributes for that.

Thanks, I didn't know about that. Will look into it

> Git does deltification _only_ in packfiles. But when you push via SSH
> git would generate a pack file with commits the other side doesn't
> have, and those packs are thin packs, so they also have deltas... but
> the remote side then adds bases to those thin packs making them
> standalone: you would have to git-gc on remote.

So I have to git-gc on my side (after the commits), git-gc on the remote,
and then git-push?

What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. -Old Epitaph