Git vs Rsync

Posted Jul 16, 2018 20:04 UTC (Mon) by johill (subscriber, #25196)
In reply to: Git vs Rsync by epa
Parent article: Signing and distributing Gentoo

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....