Gentoo Archives: gentoo-scm

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:09:36
Message-Id: robbat2-20110824T073023-410533218Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Re: [gentoo-dev] Progress on cvs->git migration by Fabian Groffen
1 On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 08:58:49AM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > > Do we really want users to continue using rsync? Isn't git pull so
3 > > much faster? What's the downside of users using git directly?
4 > ehm, that you need git? that you need to use git to get information
5 > about changes? that you need a whole new infrastructure of mirrors to
6 > get it running (vs the rsync infrastructure)? that you need at minimum
7 > 800MiB to be able to look at some history, iso. 286MiB as the rsync tree
8 > is now?
9 That's not a valid size comparison, see my previous email.
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11 > Besides from that git doesn't even work on all platforms, but I can
12 > imagine you don't care about that.
13 Very valid as well.
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