Re: [PATCH] Enable info/refs gzip decompression in HTTP client

2012-09-19 Thread Shawn Pearce
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> -> Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip >> +> Accept-Encoding: gzip > > ... was loss of "deflate" intended? If so why? Could you explain > it in the log message? Yes. I would add the following to the end of the commit message as a new paragrap

Re: [PATCH] Enable info/refs gzip decompression in HTTP client

2012-09-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > From: "Shawn O. Pearce" > > Some HTTP servers try to use gzip compression on the /info/refs > request to save transfer bandwidth. Repositories with many tags > may find the /info/refs request can be gzipped to be 50% of the > original size due to the few but often rep

[PATCH] Enable info/refs gzip decompression in HTTP client

2012-09-19 Thread Shawn O. Pearce
From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Some HTTP servers try to use gzip compression on the /info/refs request to save transfer bandwidth. Repositories with many tags may find the /info/refs request can be gzipped to be 50% of the original size due to the few but often repeated bytes used (hex SHA-1 and commonl