On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Older clients do not understand the more efficient packfile format > (delta-base-offset encoding) that can be used with recent git. The > feature is not turned on by default and is controlled by configuration > repack.usedeltabaseoffset. Whoever does the "git repack" above should > make sure he does not enable it with his $HOME/.gitconfig. Of course, if we don't care about old GIT client using HTTP transport, then enabling this option won't affect GIT client using the native protocol as the delta-base-offset encoding can be translated into the legacy encoding on the fly depending on the client's advertized capabilities. 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