matschaffer/knife-solo — Issue #32: Use node syncing using rsync (instead of uploading)
Author: TylerRick
Created: 2012-02-25 00:56:32+00:00
State: open

I don't actually know what this means, but I saw it on http://groups.google.com/group/littlechef/browse_thread/thread/82a1838e5f479d15 and it sounded good:

> Syncing
> =======
> As the kitchen repository kept growing with many cookbooks and nodes,
> uploading all files on every run was getting a bit slow. Markus
> implemented node syncing using rsync (instead of uploading), which
> speeds up things massively from the second run on.

How do configure rsync to "sync" instead of "upload"? And why would that be faster?

Should we at least add a --compress option? Would that speed it up at all?