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Am 27.06.2010 17:07, schrieb Peter Humphrey: |
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> On Sunday 27 June 2010 12:15:50 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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>> is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? |
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>> IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the |
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>> long run (especially when syncing often). |
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> I sometimes wonder whether I should file a feature request on rsync, to |
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> make it offer a mode in which only directories in which it does something |
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> are listed on stdout. I shudder to think of the CPU cycles that are |
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> wasted daily on scrolling all those directory names up the screen during |
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> an emerge --sync. 21293 of them on this box today, altogether. |
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It has been discussed on gentoo-dev some months ago. Some people were |
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afraid that git would use too many file stats on every operation to be |
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usable (performance-wise). I don't know the outcome of that discussion. |
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Part of it probably took place on IRC. Maybe someone more interested |
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than me can read it up and summarize? |
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Hope this helps, |
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Florian Philipp |
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