2011-06-07 12:14:44

by Sedat Dilek

Subject: [v3.0-rc2] Creating an archive-tarball from linux-2.6 GIT repository

Hi,

as the official tarballs still missing, here some instructions to
archive a tarball from GIT repository.

[ Checkout linux-2.6 (aka linux-3.0) ]

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

( NOTE: Users from EU zone: Use <git.us.kernel.org>... it's faster for
checkouts. )

cd linux-2.6

[ gzip ]

git archive --format=tar --prefix=linux-3.0-rc2/ v3.0-rc2 | gzip -9c >
../linux-3.0-rc2.tar.gz

[ bzip2 ]

git archive --format=tar --prefix=linux-3.0-rc2/ v3.0-rc2 | bzip2 -9c
> ../linux-3.0-rc2.tar.bz2

[ xz ]

git archive --format=tar --prefix=linux-3.0-rc2/ v3.0-rc2 | xz -9c >
../linux-3.0-rc2.tar.xz

A good compromise between decompression-speed and file-size is:

[ xz -2e ]

git archive --format=tar --prefix=linux-3.0-rc2/ v3.0-rc2 | xz -2ec >
../linux-3.0-rc2.tar.xz-2e

[ Filesizes ]

$ du -h linux-3.0-rc2.tar.*
74M linux-3.0-rc2.tar.bz2
93M linux-3.0-rc2.tar.gz
61M linux-3.0-rc2.tar.xz
65M linux-3.0-rc2.tar.xz-2e

Thanks to friends from #quassel.de (git archive) and #mirbsd (xz -2e)
for the hints.
Thanks to Linus for not providing tarballs...
As I used to say... Still learning from git usecase to git usecase.

- Sedat -

2011-06-07 12:56:39

by Richard Weinberger

Subject: Re: [v3.0-rc2] Creating an archive-tarball from linux-2.6 GIT repository

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks to Linus for not providing tarballs...

Read: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/6/235

--
Thanks,
//richard

2011-06-07 13:09:57

by Sedat Dilek

Subject: Re: [v3.0-rc2] Creating an archive-tarball from linux-2.6 GIT repository

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:56 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks to Linus for not providing tarballs...
>
> Read: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/6/235
>

I know he is travelling, in my words there is no sarcasm BTW.
...was a nice short trip with git-archive and currently playing with
XZs compression-levels and decompression-speed.

- Sedat -

2011-06-07 13:12:47

by Richard Weinberger

Subject: Re: [v3.0-rc2] Creating an archive-tarball from linux-2.6 GIT repository

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I know he is travelling, in my words there is no sarcasm BTW.
> ...was a nice short trip with git-archive and currently playing with
> XZs compression-levels and decompression-speed.
>

Ok, please tell us when you find another nice git command. ;-)

--
Thanks,
//richard