On 2022-07-31, n952162 <n952...@web.de> wrote: > I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, > it's really a painful process. > > The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not.
In my experience, long --sync times have always been due to a slow rsync server. Switching to a different server fixed it for me (though sometimes it took a few tries to find a server that responded in a timly manner). That said, git is an order of magnitude faster than even the fastest rsync server. > It can take several hours before it finally works That seems like something other than just a slow server. When dealing with slow servers, it never took more than 15-30 minutes. -- Grant