From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OStT5-0000yB-OH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:08:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 623A6E0B6D; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40224E0B6D for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C703EDECB2 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:07:47 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zWT0GKojgtDu for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:07:47 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9300BDEB7B for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:07:47 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree from git Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:07:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100627111550.GA20532@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20100627111550.GA20532@nibiru.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006271607.46891.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 091dc56b-7d7a-4d12-9796-beefb9554107 X-Archives-Hash: 4e8b18776a6830564b011462637718ac On Sunday 27 June 2010 12:15:50 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? > > IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the > long run (especially when syncing often). I sometimes wonder whether I should file a feature request on rsync, to make it offer a mode in which only directories in which it does something are listed on stdout. I shudder to think of the CPU cycles that are wasted daily on scrolling all those directory names up the screen during an emerge --sync. 21293 of them on this box today, altogether. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.