Peter Volkov posted on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:09:04 +0400 as excerpted: >> One of the huge benefits in using git would be really fast emerge >> --syncs. Not having some kind of system for migrating users to git >> seems like a lot of the benefits are lost. > > Is git faster then rsync? I've never done any checks but it'll be > surprising if it will.
That's a question that has come up before. I don't know the answer... > Another useful feature of rsync is --exclude that > allows some categories to be excluded (for size and speed efficiency), > e.g. my servers don't need kde-* and games-*. Git has similar options in the form of the .git/info/exclude file at the (local) repository level, and .gitignore files at the subdir level (these are normally synced with the repo but of course can be excluded locally by the above repository level file, if desired). Patterns similar to those used by rsync --exclude are even supported. =:^) See also the git config core.excludefile command (git-config (1) manpage) and the gitignore (5) manpage. > Also taking into account > that we use portage tree on embedded devices where again both size and > speed really matters it looks like the answer on your question is > "permanently". With shallow checkouts, the size aspect is somewhat mitigated. However, it may be that there'd be three user sync options, adding git, to the current two (rsync and webrsync). IMO it'd be a real shame to not make the git sync option available to the user, as a number of projects have already discovered that real community involvement at the GOOD bug report and above level can increase dramatically after a switch to git, due to the vastly increased accessibility and ease of use of tools such as git bisect. But the *REAL* decison on whether git is ultimately made available at the user level or not will probably be infra's to make, based not on the above, but on the very practical question of whether Gentoo's mirror infrastructure can actually handle the git-pull load. After all, that's said to be the reason the CVS tree isn't made directly available to ordinary users today. Git should be better than CVS in that regard, but will it be good /enough/ as compared to the resources demanded by rsync, or not? That I don't know, tho I suspect infra and/or the git upgrade project already has a reasonably educated opinion on the matter. Of course, someone like Google donating enough hardware and bandwidth to "make it happen", based on, say, their use of Gentoo as a basis for ChromeOS, thus making a healthy Gentoo good for them too, might help infra with its decision. One can hope. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
