Re: [GIT PATCH] I2C and W1 bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- Apr 20, 2005, 17:15 UTC
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
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> > I see this -avz incantation mentioned everytime when rsync is > involved. But, is the -z part (compression) really necessary knowing > that we're dealing with an already compressed tree? Doesn't it put > additional strain on the rsync server without any benefit in this > case? > > Or I might be too ignorant and not understand some internals well, but > then... I would like to know the reason. :)
I'm not a big rsync user, so I just copied the examples of others.
You're right, for git, you should not use compression for files (I don't know if rsync compresses the directory listings by default, I assume it does).
Linus