[arch-general] An evil idea --- use Git to manage the repositories

[Thomas Bächler]

goodmenzy at gmail.com schrieb:
> Is it possible?
> 
> advantage:
>    1  The mirrors do not need  download the total new pkgs if it just 
>       updated several files.
>    2  old versions of package can be retrived.
>    3  GIT is fast.  
>    4  It seems cool!
> 
> dis-advantage:
>    1  It is a torture of GIT
>    2  Huge of works to be done.
> 

I don't think git is suitable for maintaining large amounts of binary 
files. The diffs probably won't be very efficient, so storage size will 
explode. And - all mirrors use rsync (they also mirror other stuff 
besides Arch), we can't just tell them all to do it differently.

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