From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7548D1389E2 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:08:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CE27E0895; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0F30E07F0 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (tor-exit-4.all.de [212.21.66.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42CCA3403C3 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:08:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5476A3B1.1050403@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:08:17 +0000 From: hasufell 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] Gentoo's future directtion ? References: <5470D229.7000806@tampabay.rr.com> <54760E01.2050508@gentoo.org> <54764D1E.1080201@xunil.at> <54768398.60701@yourstruly.sx> <547689B4.6010606@yourstruly.sx> In-Reply-To: <547689B4.6010606@yourstruly.sx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ee49b2da-e243-4eff-8a13-e2af2e907e02 X-Archives-Hash: 08134fb8a602997014ec86807de30393 Paige Thompson: > You know I don't think thats going to happen because if you look at > layman its not as if they didn't think of using git for package trees; > all of them do use git. > > A good example of why I don't think they will be using git for portage: > ``git clone https://git.kernel.org' > > This takes a very long time and a lot of bandwidth and a lot of space. > Why move data that isn't going to be used? With rsync I believe you can > exclude categories: > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync > That is uninformed. check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with --depth=1. Shallow clones are fully supported and you can push from them.