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 -- 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