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authortv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-05 04:00:14 +0100
committertv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-05 04:00:14 +0100
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@@ -172,8 +172,9 @@ sent: it would be all or nothing, sent again whole after a lost copy, and on a s
may not arrive within the transport's delivery limit (Mycelium's five minutes). The sender takes it back and offers a
*delta* instead: the changes in the history of its heads but not of the peer's (as far
as it knows them; of those, the ones it holds, and for any it lacks, the heads they
-share). The peer fetches them as a blob, in chunks, from the sender and any other peer
-holding both sets of heads (every such peer produces the same bytes), loads them,
+share). The peer fetches them as a blob, in chunks (each deflated where that makes it
+at least a tenth smaller), from the sender and any other peer holding both sets of
+heads (every such peer produces the same bytes), loads them,
and syncs on; the rest goes in ordinary messages. Until the peer answers, the sender
sends it nothing; if the answer is overdue, it offers again (the same offer, without
generating the message again, while neither side's heads moved). This is how a join without a