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From: Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>
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, 03 Aug 2010 18:47:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C58481B.40606@f_philipp.fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008031611.10770.grimlog@gmx.de>

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Am 03.08.2010 16:11, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer:
> Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 08:31:38 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
>> On 08/03/2010 08:03 AM, Sebastián Ramírez Magrí wrote:
[...]
>>
>> 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.
> 

Not necessarily true: Many (all?) public gentoo mirrors deactivate
delta-encoding in order to limit CPU-utilization. I would also guess
that git's delta encoding has a much finer granularity because it works
on lines (in text files) while rsync is designed to work on binary data.


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03 16:47 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 [this message]
2010-08-03 18:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Sergei Trofimovich
2010-08-03 19:57   ` [gentoo-user] " Sebastián Ramírez Magrí

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