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From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
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 13:52:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ofbn9ia.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i38d41$oh8$1@dough.gmane.org> (Nikos Chantziaras's message of "Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:31:38 +0300")

Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> writes:

> Git needs to move much less data around than rsync.  It only transfers
> differences, not whole files.

But is uses a *lot* more disk space on the systems as each system
contains the full history.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03 12:53 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 [this message]
2010-08-03 16:38     ` Florian Philipp
2010-08-03 14:11   ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2010-08-03 16:47     ` Florian Philipp
2010-08-03 18:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Sergei Trofimovich
2010-08-03 19:57   ` [gentoo-user] " Sebastián Ramírez Magrí

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