On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 8/17/06, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Nah. The only overhead for a server to feed an "old" pack format from a > > "new" pack file is to inflate and deflate some data. That is not _that_ > > costly. > > It is costly because the Mozilla pack is going to inflate from 295MB > to 845MB. It will take you much longer to download an extra 500MB than > upgrading your client would take. I didn't say it isn't costly. I said that it isn't _that_ costly to the point of bringing down a server. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html