On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:52:23PM +0100, sanchan wrote: > Markus Ullmann wrote: > > This was one of the big reasons. They (and we maybe as well) have people > > there with 56k/64k dialup connections. Checking out the whole thing > > would take ages. > > I can confirm we have people with 56k dial up :-) Checking out portage every > day > for a developer on 56k takes already a lot of time using cvs. If I had to > check > out the whole history every day I'd never become a gentoo developer.
Once you have the original tree, syncing with git for the update would be very small and workable with a 56k dialup. It's just the original sync would be a pain, but again, probably no more than the original cvs checkout was. thanks, greg k-h -- [email protected] mailing list
