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 1OgKea-0003gi-Le for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:47:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8361AE07ED; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:47:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6913EE07ED for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:47:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F601A2C6A; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:47:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:47:31 -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=juK/KPvJ+gl32SR485p9yafazLE=; b=KlTVJWEpbD0m29593Mpaw839CuoqSQe9lvftyqtPSYaZ1LqIz51CweFXbwlSuHTz/bAnTuXAPSaW7C+YaDi9wRBx04YuQe3BZ6WZbzrT9XPbgx5aDtiFxn+jPXgxcV3XEmZekbeNNUyyZl3aoh8bgilMj3Ib+Gf732Oj/LIN21M= X-Sasl-enc: 8qgUZGFRFma2X9Vj6IUZ2Xyt8/hDSPZlsUjQlG/iZu5/ 1280854050 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 B5FB63A1BC for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:47:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C58481B.40606@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:47:23 +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> <201008031611.10770.grimlog@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <201008031611.10770.grimlog@gmx.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8C67DCF8C8C71764B372396B" X-Archives-Salt: 5df1ed6f-566d-4428-90df-1fcbae3dab10 X-Archives-Hash: f582a301bddc7149a847f37404cfe8a5 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8C67DCF8C8C71764B372396B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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, Sebasti=E1n Ram=EDrez Magr=ED wrote: [...] >> >> Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers= >> differences, not whole files. >=20 > Not true. rsync uses delta-encoding to minimize data transfers. >=20 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. --------------enig8C67DCF8C8C71764B372396B 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxYSB8ACgkQqs4uOUlOuU9DYwCePo4T4exvGueHF6GsOSi+Eo8M Vs0AnjKkb+R9c6DGzkbAu/THLoGceQ3y =UGQ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8C67DCF8C8C71764B372396B--