Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/16] remote-helpers: Support custom transport options

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:52:58 -0700

Daniel Barkalow <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > > > +'option thin'::
> > > > +	Transfer the data as a thin pack if possible.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone still use non-default thinness? 
> > 
> > Its a command line option on the porcelain.
> 
> Actually, the command line supports turning it on, and it defaults to on. 
> So I think your helper can safely assume that it's on. :)

For fetch it defaults to "on", but for push I think it defaults
to "off".  Turning it on when pushing on a low bandwidth network
connection might actually be useful to an end-user.

-- 
Shawn.