Re: [gentoo-project] RFC: Dropping rsync as a tree distribution method

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 01:14:44PM -0500, Brian Evans wrote:
> I personally would be sad to see rsync go as I use the git developer
> tree as my main repository on 2 machines. This is so I can develop and
> update from the single source.  These have no news or md5-cache and it
> can be painful to generate metadata on one of them.
> I rely on scripts to pull down the rsync metadata to expedite this
> process. eg. rsync <host>/gentoo-portage/metadata/md5-cache/.
As point out elsewhere, news and md5-cache ARE available in the git sync
repos.

> Git has no easy sub-tree download equivalent that I know of.
Upstream Git does have development efforts going on towards this goal,
spearheaded by developers at Google & Microsoft, who want to work with
sub-trees in massive repos. 

Without those new enhancements, it was already possible to checkout only
a subtree (but you still had to download all of it).

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