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diff --git a/docs/peers.md b/docs/peers.md index a6b69b4..e098b01 100644 --- a/docs/peers.md +++ b/docs/peers.md @@ -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 |