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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 16:29:41
Message-Id: 20170521162930.GA23146@linux1
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/ by Martin Vaeth
1 On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:46:54PM +0000, Martin Vaeth wrote:
2 > Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
4 > >
5 > >> Hardware or more deltas to
6 > >> download by users? Just wondering.
7 > >
8 > > Both.
9 > >
10 > > - End users using git end up having to do massive metadata-updates.
11 > > - Infra needs to have massive hits to metadata regeneration
12 > > - End users using rsync have to fetch large deltas
13 >
14 > - Users using git repositories with pre-generated metadata have to
15 > download/store much more history data
16
17 If this is such a big problem, maybe we should be discussing how to
18 redesign things to improve it?
19
20 William

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