Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

[hasufell]

Paige Thompson:
> You know I don't think thats going to happen because if you look at
> layman its not as if they didn't think of using git for package trees;
> all of them do use git.
>
> A good example of why I don't think they will be using git for portage:
> ``git clone https://git.kernel.org'
>
> This takes a very long time and a lot of bandwidth and a lot of space.
> Why move data that isn't going to be used? With rsync I believe you can
> exclude categories:
> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync
>

That is uninformed.

check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with
--depth=1.

Shallow clones are fully supported and you can push from them.