Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 08:31:38 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> On 08/03/2010 08:03 AM, Sebastián Ramírez Magrí wrote:
> > Hi folks...
> >
> > I've been thinking about switching from a rsync based tree to a git
> > based one cloning [0]. The main reasons because I would do that is in
> > order to save bandwidth (I've a slow GSM connection in my netbook and
> > I sync two other gentoo boxes from the first one) and maybe time.
> >
> > So here goes the question, Is a git based tree really going to save me
> > an appreciable bandwidth and time on syncing?, Can I keep the same
> > replication functionality rsync gives me to sync my other boxes?
> >
> > [0] http://github.com/funtoo/portage/tree/gentoo.org
>
> Git needs to move much less data around than rsync.  It only transfers
> differences, not whole files.

Not true. rsync uses delta-encoding to minimize data transfers.

Regards
Michael