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Martin Vaeth:
> hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> With rsync I believe you can exclude categories:
>>> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync
>>
>> That is uninformed.
> 
> I think he is right.
> 
>> check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with
>> --depth=1.
> 
> Every tag will still contain all categories:
> AFAIK, with git, it is not possible to update everyting but e.g. *access*
> *kde* *i10n* *gnome* if you know that you will never install an
> ebuild from these categories.
> 
> 

My max DL rate is ~700KiB/s and is the limiting factor.

# time git clone --depth=1 --branch=v3.1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
real	2m56.615s
user	0m5.802s
sys	0m0.578s

So the initial comment

> A good example of why I don't think they will be using git for portage:
> ``git clone https://git.kernel.org'

doesn't make much sense, because it isn't the recommended way to clone
the kernel tree.