Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog - Infra Response; update 2015/11/11, potential impact to 30min rsync cycle

[Alexander Tsoy <alexander@tsoy.me>]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:49:38 +0800
Jason Zaman <perfinion@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:46:19AM +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:11:48 +0000
> > "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:54:06PM +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:  
> > > > It's not perfectly clean but I don't see any problem here:
> > > > ChangeLog-2015 : all ChangeLog from CVS
> > > > ChangeLog: autogenerated from git    
> > > FYI, this was implemented.  
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > How should one report bugs ? to infra or portage ?
> > From my just rsynced tree, I see changelogs in reverse order: oldest
> > come first, latest come last  
> 
> NOTABUG, it was changed because rsync can deal really well with
> appending to the end of files. rsyncing a file where things were things
> were added to the beginning of the file means rsync will copy the whole
> file from scratch which is pretty sub-optimal.
> 

PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS by default contains "--whole-file". So I guess
appending to the ChangeLog files doesn't really help. :)

-- 
Alexander Tsoy