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 1OgIIs-0004ap-TQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:17:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76797E0667; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2E6DE0667 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Aug 2010 14:16:04 -0000 Received: from p7223e3d4.np.gmx.net (EHLO sbdev.localnet) [212.227.35.114] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 03 Aug 2010 16:16:04 +0200 X-Authenticated: #13997268 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19SVJd4039SQHHWFIpdNL+wKo1P+qsIZ0oOl8+VQi J47lKYGcQCFmDE From: Michael Schreckenbauer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time? Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:11:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-12-default; KDE/4.4.4; i686; ; ) References: <87pqy02spd.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201008031611.10770.grimlog@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 3 X-Archives-Salt: d11ba5e8-1b96-4cc8-ad74-a5e197f3c341 X-Archives-Hash: 389cf461de2fb73b5fa119b294734231 Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 08:31:38 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 08/03/2010 08:03 AM, Sebasti=E1n Ram=EDrez Magr=ED wrote: > > Hi folks... > >=20 > > I've been thinking about switching from a rsync based tree to a git > > based one cloning [0]. The main reasons because I would do that is in > > order to save bandwidth (I've a slow GSM connection in my netbook and > > I sync two other gentoo boxes from the first one) and maybe time. > >=20 > > So here goes the question, Is a git based tree really going to save me > > an appreciable bandwidth and time on syncing?, Can I keep the same > > replication functionality rsync gives me to sync my other boxes? > >=20 > > [0] http://github.com/funtoo/portage/tree/gentoo.org >=20 > Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers > differences, not whole files. Not true. rsync uses delta-encoding to minimize data transfers. Regards Michael