Paige Thompson: > You know I don't think thats going to happen because if you look at > layman its not as if they didn't think of using git for package trees; > all of them do use git. > > A good example of why I don't think they will be using git for portage: > ``git clone https://git.kernel.org' > > This takes a very long time and a lot of bandwidth and a lot of space. > Why move data that isn't going to be used? With rsync I believe you can > exclude categories: > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync >
That is uninformed. check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with --depth=1. Shallow clones are fully supported and you can push from them.
