On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM, <goodmenzy@xxxxxxxxx> 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).
