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

[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

If they were gonna do that with git every category would have to be a
submodule. I could be wrong but I just want to believe it hasn't been
made available despite being supported for a good reason.

On 11/27/14 02:03, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Paige Thompson <erratic@××××××××××.sx> wrote:
>> you might check out webrsync fwiw
>>
> Webrsync is great, of course, but not really the same thing as git.
>
> Changelogs will also go away when we move to git.
>
> --
> Rich
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