port sync performance

[Jan Stary]

On Mar 25 10:24:22, pmetzger at 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
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> Perry E. Metzger		pmetzger at macports.org