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<p>The reasons for this asymmetry are historical. The receive-pack
program did not exist until after the invention of thin packs, so
historically the reference implementation of receive-pack always
understood thin packs. Adding <em>no-thin</em> later allowed receive-pack
to disable the feature in a backwards-compatible manner.</p>
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<h2 id="_side_band_side_band_64k">side-band, side-band-64k</h2>
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