Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: 2005-06-29 01:49:29
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> It shouldn't be hard to add; the main issue is determining when
> transfering a pack file is a good idea, because it probably doesn't make
> sense to transfer a pack file just because the source side has an object
> that the target side wants in that pack.

Oh, you'd never just transfer the whole big pack-file at all: you'd just 
create a new one. And creatign a new one is just a matter of finding the 
common parent, and then doing

	git-rev-list --objects common..HEAD | git-pack-file .git/tmp-pack

and then you send the result to the other side..

		Linus
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