Make --no-thin the default in git-push to save server resources

1) pushes happen less often than fetches, so the bandwidth saving is
   much less visible in that case overall.

2) thin packs have to be complemented with missing delta bases to be
   valid, so many received thin packs will take more disk space.

3) the bother of repacking should be distributed amongst "clients"
   i.e. fetchers and pushers as much as possible, and not the server
   being fetched or pushed, to keep disk and CPU usage low on the
   server.

This is why a fetch should get thin packs but a push should not.

Both Nico and I have been assuming that --no-thin was the default
behavior of git-push ever since Nico introduced --fix-thin into the
index-pack process, which allowed fetch and receive-pack to avoid
exploding packfiles received during transfer.  This patch finally
makes it so.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin-push.c b/builtin-push.c
index 2612f07f74855ad6dec8ccd605279ab3a502e5e2..88c5024da7c9831e69ee20ca20ed9bdb5ddee63f 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-push.c
+++ b/builtin-push.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 static const char push_usage[] = "git-push [--all] [--tags] [--receive-pack=<git-receive-pack>] [--repo=all] [-f | --force] [-v] [<repository> <refspec>...]";
 
-static int all, force, thin = 1, verbose;
+static int all, force, thin, verbose;
 static const char *receivepack;
 
 static const char **refspec;