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 2218C1389E2 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:36:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 977B5E08E0; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:36:30 +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 8E289E0788 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (ns3266026.ip-5-39-79.eu [5.39.79.28]) (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 B99FA3404A4 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:36:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5478A482.2030203@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:36:18 +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] Re: 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> <5476A3B1.1050403@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 7f55ed7d-d296-40c9-a5b6-c769fe015edb X-Archives-Hash: a23271d30365db4340adc171ab55373f Martin Vaeth: > hasufell 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.