Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751651AbWIUV5V (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:57:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751649AbWIUV5V (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:57:21 -0400 Received: from bayc1-pasmtp02.bayc1.hotmail.com ([65.54.191.162]:35593 "EHLO BAYC1-PASMTP02.CEZ.ICE") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751647AbWIUV5U (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:57:20 -0400 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [65.94.249.130] X-Originating-Email: [seanlkml@sympatico.ca] Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:57:17 -0400 From: Sean To: Dax Kelson Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Linux kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? Message-Id: <20060921175717.272c58ee.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <1158874875.24172.47.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> References: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20060921204250.GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20060921171747.9ae2b42e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <1158874875.24172.47.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.10.3; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2006 21:57:19.0166 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8911DE0:01C6DDC8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 18 On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:41:15 -0600 Dax Kelson wrote: > > Git users and tarball users are different audiences. > Don't see why that needs to be the case. Git can even produce the tarballs once you've synced up with kernel.org (see git-tar-tree). People interested in conserving bandwidth should really consider the use of Git. Sean - 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/