Given the speed improvement in using git for --sync, I wonder why that
isn't the default in the portage section of the manual....

On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 4:49 PM Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>
wrote:

> On Sunday, 31 July 2022 21:43:12 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> > I switched to using git for syncing, from github, and haven't looked
> > back. It is *much* faster, several times faster syncing from github than
> > using rsync to sync from a local mirror, and github is always there.
>
> One thing to note, if you do change to git syncing, is that you'll have to
> delete your entire portage tree: 'rm -r /var/db/repos/portage'. That may
> seem
> like a bad idea if you're having sync problems, but it isn't really. After
> that, the sync will take just seconds, as Neil said.
>
> You'll never look back.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peter.
>
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