From: Zlatko Calusic Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:56:11 GMT Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] I2C and W1 bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > Real merges have no patches taking place _anywhere_. And they take about > half a second. Doing an "update" of your tree should _literally_ boil down > to > > # > # "repo" needs to point to the repo we update from > # > rsync -avz --ignore-existing $repo/objects/. .git/objects/. 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. :) Regards, -- Zlatko