On 06/02/11 09:40, Eray Aslan wrote: >> Is git faster then rsync? I've never done any checks but it'll be >> surprising if it will. > > Git usually is faster - except the initial clone. Basically, rsync > protocol scales with the project size not with change size.
We're discussing performance of something that takes less than a minute. I see times of ~30-45 seconds for emerge --sync vs. ~30 seconds for git pull on the kde overlay. And then portage takes so much longer to calculate deps anyway ... why are we discussing the performance of the fastest operation? ;) > And lastly, while I don't really care either way, I think at least some > of the push back is the result of unfamiliarity with git. And my > impression is that unless a dev with enough political capital spearheads > the move, this issue will continue to come up for a long time yet. > More the complexity of git making simple things an hour-long oddysey through IRC, trying to find someone who has a clue how to get the HEAD back ... it's a complex thing that usually gets in the way when I use more than add, commit and push (and even push is aargh nooo why so complimacated?!) But I guess people prefer having to write wrapper scripts around wrappers to get things done, so I'll just stay out of the way and reserve the right to point and laugh when funny misbehaviour happens. -- Patrick Lauer http://service.gentooexperimental.org Gentoo Council Member and Evangelist Part of Gentoo Benchmarks, Forensics, PostgreSQL, KDE herds
