port sync performance

[Perry E. Metzger]

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.

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
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Perry E. Metzger		pmetzger at macports.org