On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 06:01:21PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Consider an asymmetric home internet connection with more download > than upload capacity. The server may well be able to send the > original full text much faster than the client could upload it. > So with a sufficiently small delta the overall turnaround time might > well be much shorter than letting the client upload a full-text copy. > > In cases where the server is hosted behind such a link we will lose time. > But I would expect this case to be less common than the former.
After some more thought on this I realize the main focus of this effort are files which are difficult to deltify. In that case my above consideration is likely going to be irrelevant in practice. And I see that Evgeny has already figured out how to make the client send a full text during commit. Great :)
