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Given the speed improvement in using git for --sync, I wonder why that |
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isn't the default in the portage section of the manual.... |
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On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 4:49 PM Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> |
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> On Sunday, 31 July 2022 21:43:12 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > I switched to using git for syncing, from github, and haven't looked |
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> > back. It is *much* faster, several times faster syncing from github than |
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> > using rsync to sync from a local mirror, and github is always there. |
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> One thing to note, if you do change to git syncing, is that you'll have to |
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> delete your entire portage tree: 'rm -r /var/db/repos/portage'. That may |
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> like a bad idea if you're having sync problems, but it isn't really. After |
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> that, the sync will take just seconds, as Neil said. |
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> You'll never look back. |
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> Regards, |
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> Peter. |
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Lee 😎 |
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