Am 03.08.2010 16:11, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: > Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 08:31:38 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >> On 08/03/2010 08:03 AM, Sebastián Ramírez Magrí wrote: [...] >> >> Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers >> differences, not whole files. > > Not true. rsync uses delta-encoding to minimize data transfers. >
Not necessarily true: Many (all?) public gentoo mirrors deactivate delta-encoding in order to limit CPU-utilization. I would also guess that git's delta encoding has a much finer granularity because it works on lines (in text files) while rsync is designed to work on binary data.
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