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On Sunday 27 June 2010 12:15:50 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? |
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> IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the |
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> long run (especially when syncing often). |
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I sometimes wonder whether I should file a feature request on rsync, to |
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make it offer a mode in which only directories in which it does something |
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are listed on stdout. I shudder to think of the CPU cycles that are |
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wasted daily on scrolling all those directory names up the screen during |
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an emerge --sync. 21293 of them on this box today, altogether. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. |