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On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 01:14:44PM -0500, Brian Evans wrote: |
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> I personally would be sad to see rsync go as I use the git developer |
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> tree as my main repository on 2 machines. This is so I can develop and |
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> update from the single source. These have no news or md5-cache and it |
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> can be painful to generate metadata on one of them. |
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> I rely on scripts to pull down the rsync metadata to expedite this |
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> process. eg. rsync <host>/gentoo-portage/metadata/md5-cache/. |
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As point out elsewhere, news and md5-cache ARE available in the git sync |
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repos. |
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> Git has no easy sub-tree download equivalent that I know of. |
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Upstream Git does have development efforts going on towards this goal, |
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spearheaded by developers at Google & Microsoft, who want to work with |
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sub-trees in massive repos. |
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Without those new enhancements, it was already possible to checkout only |
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a subtree (but you still had to download all of it). |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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