From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261261AbVDIDPS (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:15:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261262AbVDIDPS (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:15:18 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:59658 "EHLO opteron.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261261AbVDIDPO (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:15:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 05:15:21 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Brian Gerst Cc: Linus Torvalds , Martin Pool , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Lang Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. Message-ID: <20050409031521.GC14085@opteron.random> References: <1112852302.29544.75.camel@hope> <1112939769.29544.161.camel@hope> <20050408083839.GC3957@opteron.random> <20050409022701.GA14085@opteron.random> <4257474A.108@didntduck.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4257474A.108@didntduck.org> X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:08:58PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > It's my understanding that the files don't change. Only new ones are > created for each revision. I said diff between the trees, not diff between files ;). When you fetch the new changes with rsync, it'll compress better and in turn it'll be faster (assuming we're network bound and I am with 1mbit and 2.5ghz cpu), if it's rsync applying gzip to the big "combined diff between trees" instead of us compressing every single small file on disk, that won't compress anymore inside rsync.