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From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: sebasmagri@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:11:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803211122.0aa20ffb@mosly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqy02spd.fsf@gmail.com>

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Hi Sebastián,

> 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.

When I had awfully slow internet I used to use app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync.
emerge-delta-webrsync recreates portage tarball from previous state and patches.
It usually takes about 300KB (one patch size) per day.

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  Sergei

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-03  5:03 [gentoo-user] Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time? Sebastián Ramírez Magrí
2010-08-03  6:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-08-03 12:52   ` Graham Murray
2010-08-03 16:38     ` Florian Philipp
2010-08-03 14:11   ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2010-08-03 16:47     ` Florian Philipp
2010-08-03 18:11 ` Sergei Trofimovich [this message]
2010-08-03 19:57   ` Sebastián Ramírez Magrí

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