[gentoo-user] sync-type: rsync vs git

[Grant Edwards]

A while back I switched one of my machines sync-type for the gentoo
repo from rsync to git using https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/sync/gentoo.git
because that machine is behind a firewall that stopped allowing rsync
connections.

Is there any advantage (either to me or the Gentoo community) to
continue to use rsync and the rsync pool instead of switching the
rest of my machines to git?

I've been very impressed with the reliability and speed of sync
operations using git they never take more than a few seconds. When
using rsync, it seems like I regularly used to have to spend time
trying different mirrors and hard-wiring one in my config file because
the one I (or the pool) had chosen had fallen back to using a Bell-212
modem for its internet connection. Sync operations often used to take
many minutes and would sometimes just hang.

-- 
Grant