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 1OgKW3-0002uB-A2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:38:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0B50E078A; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8F0E078A for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FE51A29B5; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:38:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:38:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=XQx6/ONnWIgvJCKaExcs0r/k0LU=; b=VBJr96xt+KcrrCviKNi4RT5rVf8ve3+1RGmg8EvKzjw1ei7nn5OpiDn2RD2+6QYd9ueJEdCL1ehYqpsL3Y7vGk4vK1vcIShrjV8qWEUhS1n0wZzV1mtZYZaBMJIixUBms29uAg4yCk5A2nVilPYJssWKJFYMRTGmq2KlPE1sjGo= X-Sasl-enc: r/EmG3UkMz4kxFC6eRMFk9RV7aMySUggpq6TUYfynkss 1280853501 Received: from [192.168.5.10] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 12F4C4AA9CC for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:38:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C5845F8.80000@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:38:16 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100703 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.5 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time? References: <87pqy02spd.fsf@gmail.com> <874ofbn9ia.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <874ofbn9ia.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigEA9A3CCFC5E7631C42A55321" X-Archives-Salt: 820e6de7-d014-4f68-bcb0-11145f13954c X-Archives-Hash: 3a2b1b80fe8b2f6be3e31b8f14822ccf This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigEA9A3CCFC5E7631C42A55321 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 03.08.2010 14:52, schrieb Graham Murray: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: >=20 >> Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers= >> differences, not whole files. >=20 > But is uses a *lot* more disk space on the systems as each system > contains the full history. >=20 While your statement is correct, you can still avoid having the whole history and make a shallow clone. It just doesn't help much because you still need all the metadata: http://blogs.gnome.org/simos/2009/04/18/git-clones-vs-shallow-git-clones/= --------------enigEA9A3CCFC5E7631C42A55321 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxYRfwACgkQqs4uOUlOuU+KVgCdFJ2xUyQ5u1hjnCYwONG6uKJb /4MAnizYwThfF3PqC4BFGL/hR5zwZNPn =yRSX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigEA9A3CCFC5E7631C42A55321--