On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:08:53 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > rsync -rlpgo . "${EGIT_SOURCEDIR}" \
>>
>> this means you need to have DEPEND="net-misc/rsync". why not just use
>> `cp -pPR` instead ? i vaguely recall rsync being slower than a
>> straight cp too ... not much point of doing a rsync when the vast
>> majority of the time (all the time?) the destination is empty.
>
> i think i remember doing some time tests using a tar pipe at one point with
> subversion.eclass that blew cp out of the water.
>
> tar -cf - . | tar -xf - -C "${EGIT_SOURCEDIR}"
>
> might be worth looking at.
ideally, the git eclass should be creating bare checkouts only in its
store dir, in which case it could use `git archive | tar` to move
things over ...
-mike
