Thanks to everybody for your help. I will setup an alias to always use "git push --thin". For the reverse direction, I don't see a --thin for "git pull", My understanding is that "git pull" is optimal, and does what --thin does for push anyway, right? On 10/31/08, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Thanassis Tsiodras wrote: >> > >> >> So I have to git-gc on my side (after the commits), git-gc on the >> >> remote, >> >> and then git-push? >> > >> > Perhaps I haven't made myself clear. >> > >> > On the local side: git-commit creates loose (compressed, but not >> > deltified) objects. git-gc packs and deltifies. >> > >> > On the remote side (for smart protocols, i.e. git and ssh): git >> > creates _thin_ pack, deltified; >> >> I don't understand this point: the OP talks about pushing, so isn't >> the pack created on the _local_ machine (and then sent to the remote)? > > Yes, the pack is created on the fly when pushing, regardless if the repo > is already packed or not locally. The only difference a locally packed > repo provides is a shorter "Compressing objects" phase when pushing > that's all. The packedness of the remote has no effect at all. > > > Nicolas > -- What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. -Old Epitaph -- 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
