On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 09:13:17PM -0500, Neal Kreitzinger wrote: > Does a file's delta-compression efficiency in the pack-file directly > correlate to its efficiency of transmission size/bandwidth in a > git-fetch and git-push? IOW, are big-files also a problem for > git-fetch and git-push by taking too long in a remote transfer? Yes. The on-the-wire format is a packfile. We create a new packfile on the fly, so we may find new deltas (e.g., between objects that were stored on disk in two different packs), but we will mostly be reusing deltas from the existing packs. So any time you improve the on-disk representation, you are also improving the network bandwidth utilization. -Peff -- 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