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On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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> 2) While git pull is much faster on a decent connection than rsync, |
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> metadata generation is damn slow, especially on older systems. On |
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> my Atom it takes several hours which is unacceptable. Please note |
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> I'm not talking about ChangeLogs generation, I meant metadata |
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> directory requires for portage and many tools (like eix) to work |
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> properly. |
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I don't think anybody has proposed ditching rsync metadata - just the |
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Changelogs at this point. |
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However, there is a git mirror that contains metadata: |
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https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git |
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I use this personally - it syncs really fast daily, and if I'm |
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tweaking ebuilds I'm typically doing it in /usr/portage before I'm |
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doing it in my actual committing tree. By running git in /usr/portage |
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I can trivially extract patches/etc and confirm that I'm not missing |
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things when I make the actual commits. It also makes changes |
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persistent across syncs. |
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In any case, it is just one more option at this point. |
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