Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org> 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...
