Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965041AbVIKSzV (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:55:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965047AbVIKSzV (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:55:21 -0400 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:54162 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965041AbVIKSzU (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:55:20 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:57:11 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Osterlund , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org? Message-ID: <20050911185711.GA22556@mars.ravnborg.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 22 > > Absolutely. The mirroring has been slow again lately. I've packed my > archive, but I suspect others should much more aggressively now be using > the "objects/info/alternates" information to point to my tree, so that > they don't even need to have their objects at all (no packing > even necessary - just running "git prune-packed" on peoples archives > would get rid of any duplicate objects when I pack mine). Can you post a small description how to utilize this method? What I've done lately has been to cp -al your .git archive. This works well when I get everything merged up and has been my lazy method to avoid doing merges yet (being cogito user I do not trust merge atm. because I have mixed up older cogito with newest git). Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/