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

[Xavier]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM, <goodmenzy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Without mentioning that any scm would probably explode handling such
big amount of binary files,
did this idea only concern the mirror synchronization part ?

who would choose to retrieve an older version of a package ? and how
would you do that ?

(anyway the first point makes any discussion worthless).