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From: Florian Philipp <lists@××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:38:59
Message-Id: 4C5845F8.80000@f_philipp.fastmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time? by Graham Murray
1 Am 03.08.2010 14:52, schrieb Graham Murray:
2 > Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> writes:
3 >
4 >> Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers
5 >> differences, not whole files.
6 >
7 > But is uses a *lot* more disk space on the systems as each system
8 > contains the full history.
9 >
10
11 While your statement is correct, you can still avoid having the whole
12 history and make a shallow clone. It just doesn't help much because you
13 still need all the metadata:
14 http://blogs.gnome.org/simos/2009/04/18/git-clones-vs-shallow-git-clones/

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