On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hmm... Perhaps it should be possible to push git updates as a pack > > file only? I mean, the pack file would stay packed = never individual > > files and never 256 directories? > > Latest Git does this. If the server is later than 1.4.3.3 then > the receive-pack process can actually store the pack file rather > than unpacking it into loose objects. The downside is that it will > copy any missing base objects onto the end of a thin pack to make > it not-thin. No. There are no thin packs for pushes. And IMHO it should stay that way exactly to avoid this little inconvenience on servers. The fetch case is a different story of course. 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