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

Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@g.o> writes:

> Hi Sebastián,
>
>> 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.
>
> When I had awfully slow internet I used to use app-portage/emerge-delta-webrsync.
> emerge-delta-webrsync recreates portage tarball from previous state and patches.
> It usually takes about 300KB (one patch size) per day.

I've been using delta-webrsync to update the _main node_ too. I think
git can't really beat delta-webrsync... Will try to do some bandwith
benchmarks and post the results asap...