From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OgB3Z-0001y4-O4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:33:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E76CDE0A6E; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56ADE0A6E for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB481B4252 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:31:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.925 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.925 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.326, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sfHK-0jyGCCO for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4AE51B421C for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OgB2H-0000BH-24 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:31:37 +0200 Received: from athedsl-378386.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.30.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:31:37 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-378386.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:31:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time? Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:31:38 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <87pqy02spd.fsf@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-378386.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100801 Thunderbird/3.1.1 In-Reply-To: <87pqy02spd.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5f33c5f0-78b9-4104-8e9e-b395267e421d X-Archives-Hash: 35e51fffc6cb59f55574dcf78f0b9e5b On 08/03/2010 08:03 AM, Sebasti=E1n Ram=EDrez Magr=ED wrote: > > Hi folks... > > I've been thinking about switching from a rsync based tree to a git > based one cloning [0]. The main reasons because I would do that is in > order to save bandwidth (I've a slow GSM connection in my netbook and > I sync two other gentoo boxes from the first one) and maybe time. > > So here goes the question, Is a git based tree really going to save me > an appreciable bandwidth and time on syncing?, Can I keep the same > replication functionality rsync gives me to sync my other boxes? > > [0] http://github.com/funtoo/portage/tree/gentoo.org Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers=20 differences, not whole files.