Git vs Rsync
Git vs Rsync
Posted Jul 16, 2018 7:39 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Git vs Rsync by grawity
Parent article: Signing and distributing Gentoo
But even now, a single 'git pull' must surely download the objects it needs one by one. If the command is aborted or times out, all it needs to do is to make sure the objects it pulled so far are saved, so they need not be fetched again next time. Or does the on-wire format make this difficult?
Posted Jul 16, 2018 20:04 UTC (Mon)
by johill (subscriber, #25196)
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Git vs Rsync
It doesn't download one by one, it downloads a pack file with (roughly?) the objects it needs. I think you probably could recover partial packfiles, but haven't checked now. See http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob;f=Documentation/techni....