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[Matthieu Moy]

Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> writes:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>
>> > On the other hand, it’s got a pack format, which
>> > does, indeed, do delta compression between objects,
>> > but that doesn’t regularily come into play, especially
>> > not on the server side of a hosted repository.
>
>> I don't think that's true, deltas in pack files are regularly used.
>
> Yes, but pack files aren’t – they require a git gc run
> or automatic gc, but the latter isn’t done on a server.

If your server does not garbage collect from time to time, your
configuration/sysadmin is seriously broken. It does so by default (man
git-config:

       receive.autogc
           By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after receiving data from git-push and updating
           refs. You can stop it by setting this variable to false.

), and one would be crazy to disable it without enabling another kind of
"git gc" (e.g. as a cron job).

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Matthieu Moy
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