On 03/13/2012 09:10 AM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:43:52 -0500 Nick Anderson <n...@cmdln.org> wrote: > > NA> I'm kind of surprised that rsync is so much faster than svn update. But > NA> I haven't tried to use subversion to distribute lots of files, only used > NA> for small trees. But i seem to use subversion for distributing small > NA> trees a lot, I should look into it and see how much faster rsync would be. > > Subversion is horribly slow by design. Look at Git for distributing a > file tree of small to mid-size files. I found it was very close to > rsync for both full and incremental updates. Make sure you're using the > smart protocol over HTTP and then you can do authentication as well; the > native Git protocol is a little faster than HTTP but it's insecure. > > For large files, rsync will win every time. But I've been considering > Twitter's Murder (https://github.com/lg/murder) or something like it > because it is truly distributed and significantly faster if you have > multiple data centers. > > Ted
Yeah I just haven't gotten around to parsing the git status output to get back to clean clone state. When i say small file trees, i mean small number of files typically < 100 not just the file size :) -- Nick Anderson <n...@cmdln.org> _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
