Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932397AbXAGFRx (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 00:17:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932400AbXAGFRx (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 00:17:53 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:39349 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932397AbXAGFRx (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 00:17:53 -0500 Message-ID: <45A08269.4050504@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:17:29 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net CC: "J.H." , Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek , kernel list , webmaster@kernel.org Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel References: <20061214223718.GA3816@elf.ucw.cz> <20061216094421.416a271e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20061216095702.3e6f1d1f.akpm@osdl.org> <458434B0.4090506@oracle.com> <1166297434.26330.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1166304080.13548.8.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <459152B1.9040106@zytor.com> <1168140954.2153.1.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> In-Reply-To: <1168140954.2153.1.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1127 Lines: 33 Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Nigel Cunningham wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> I've have git trees against a few versions besides Linus', and have just >>> moved all but Linus' to staging to help until you can get your new >>> hardware. If others were encouraged to do the same, it might help a lot? >>> >> Not really. In fact, it would hardly help at all. >> >> The two things git users can do to help is: >> >> 1. Make sure your alternatives file is set up correctly; >> 2. Keep your trees packed and pruned, to keep the file count down. >> >> If you do this, the load imposed by a single git tree is fairly negible. > > Sorry for the slow reply, and the ignorance... what's an alternatives > file? I've never heard of them before. > Just a minor correction; it's the "alternates" file (objects/info/alternates). -hpa - 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/