Martin Vaeth: > hasufell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> With rsync I believe you can exclude categories: >>> http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync >> >> That is uninformed. > > I think he is right. > >> check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with >> --depth=1. > > Every tag will still contain all categories: > AFAIK, with git, it is not possible to update everyting but e.g. *access* > *kde* *i10n* *gnome* if you know that you will never install an > ebuild from these categories. > >
My max DL rate is ~700KiB/s and is the limiting factor. # time git clone --depth=1 --branch=v3.1 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git real 2m56.615s user 0m5.802s sys 0m0.578s So the initial comment > A good example of why I don't think they will be using git for portage: > ``git clone https://git.kernel.org' doesn't make much sense, because it isn't the recommended way to clone the kernel tree.
