On 03/11/15 06:08, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/02/2015 04:52 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> I have been playing with using git to sync portage while watching the >> conversation on gentoo-dev. Works, and after the initial sync it is >> actually faster than rsync and you get changelogs of a sort. >> >> Is there a guide to set up git as a local server for portage? >> > > What do you mean by local server? You want to share the git repo on one > of your machines with some other machines of yours? > > If so, the git repo is just a directory, and can be copied around with > scp or anything else. But to do it efficiently, git knows how to operate > over SSH. So on the client, you can do something like, > > $ git clone my-server.example.com:/path/to/repo.git > > Enter the SSH password for your account on my-server.example.com, and > git will clone the whole repo. Later on, running `git pull` on the > client (from within the repo.git directory) will sync it. > >
Thanks. Yes I have a few gentoo machines and around 12 gentoo VM's - I currently use a rsync/httpreplicator to a master machine architecture which could be replaced by git. BillK
