From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-dev+bounces-20008-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1H7mCy-0008Sk-Lk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:22:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0J5LcGY026350; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:21:38 GMT Received: from perch.kroah.org (mail.kroah.org [69.55.234.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0J5JWi1028891 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:19:33 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.13] (dsl093-040-174.pdx1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.40.174]) (authenticated) by perch.kroah.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l0J5JVh06498 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:19:31 -0800 Received: from greg by press.kroah.org with local (masqmail 0.2.20) id 1H7flI-4im-00 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:29:36 -0800 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:29:36 -0800 From: Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Some sync control Message-ID: <20070118222936.GA18137@kroah.com> References: <45A6B0F7.9060301@gentoo.org> <20070111220839.GC26246@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <1168555903.9780.58.camel@localhost> <20070111232257.GE26246@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <eoitda$gbm$1@sea.gmane.org> <eojs1o$e14$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070117011012.GB15114@kroah.com> <45AD7DA2.4080700@gentoo.org> <eokl9f$ane$1@sea.gmane.org> <45AFC1E7.1040601@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45AFC1E7.1040601@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: ec4da58c-4b47-42f4-8a56-9ef7cd1b1c18 X-Archives-Hash: 26dbfa7b6756c8b45db902dbfcb3aa8f On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:52:23PM +0100, sanchan wrote: > Markus Ullmann wrote: > > This was one of the big reasons. They (and we maybe as well) have people > > there with 56k/64k dialup connections. Checking out the whole thing > > would take ages. > > I can confirm we have people with 56k dial up :-) Checking out portage every day > for a developer on 56k takes already a lot of time using cvs. If I had to check > out the whole history every day I'd never become a gentoo developer. Once you have the original tree, syncing with git for the update would be very small and workable with a 56k dialup. It's just the original sync would be a pain, but again, probably no more than the original cvs checkout was. thanks, greg k-h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list