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From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: sebasmagri@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:12:12
Message-Id: 20100803211122.0aa20ffb@mosly
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time? by sebasmagri@gmail.com (=?utf-8?Q?Sebasti=C3=A1n_Ram=C3=ADrez_Magr?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=AD?=)
1 Hi Sebastián,
2
3 > I've been thinking about switching from a rsync based tree to a git
4 > based one cloning [0]. The main reasons because I would do that is in
5 > order to save bandwidth (I've a slow GSM connection in my netbook and
6 > I sync two other gentoo boxes from the first one) and maybe time.
7
8 When I had awfully slow internet I used to use app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync.
9 emerge-delta-webrsync recreates portage tarball from previous state and patches.
10 It usually takes about 300KB (one patch size) per day.
11
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14 Sergei

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[gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time? sebasmagri@gmail.com (=?utf-8?Q?Sebasti=C3=A1n_Ram=C3=ADrez_Magr?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=AD?=)