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

[Florian Philipp]

Am 03.08.2010 16:11, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer:
> Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 08:31:38 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
>> On 08/03/2010 08:03 AM, Sebastián Ramírez Magrí wrote:
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>>
>> Git needs to move much less data around than rsync.  It only transfers
>> differences, not whole files.
>
> Not true. rsync uses delta-encoding to minimize data transfers.
>

Not necessarily true: Many (all?) public gentoo mirrors deactivate
delta-encoding in order to limit CPU-utilization. I would also guess
that git's delta encoding has a much finer granularity because it works
on lines (in text files) while rsync is designed to work on binary data.