On Mar 25 10:24:22, pmetz...@macports.org wrote: > Now that I'm a project member, I've noticed that the performance of > "port sync" is vastly lower than the performance of "git pull", > probably because rsync is much slower than git.
I believe it also rebuilds the index after the pull. > 1) Does anyone know why this is? Is git doing something smarter? Is > it just that "git pull" gets the benefit of github's CDN? > 2) Would it be interesting to offer people the ability to use git for > synchronization instead of rsync? > > Perry > -- > Perry E. Metzger pmetz...@macports.org