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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?
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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.