Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965125AbXAGUMb (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:12:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965121AbXAGUMb (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:12:31 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:49111 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965073AbXAGUMa (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:12:30 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:11:46 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Garzik Cc: nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , "J.H." , Randy Dunlap , Pavel Machek , kernel list , webmaster@kernel.org, Git Mailing List Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel Message-ID: <20070107201146.GA21956@suse.de> 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> <45A07587.3080503@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45A07587.3080503@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1280 Lines: 36 On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:22:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>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. > > > Would kernel hackers be amenable to having their trees auto-repacked, > and linked via alternatives to Linus's linux-2.6.git? > > Looking through kernel.org, we have a ton of repositories, however > packed, that carrying their own copies of the linux-2.6.git repo. Well, I create my repos by doing a: git clone -l --bare which makes a hardlink from Linus's tree. But then it gets copied over to the public server, which probably severs that hardlink :( Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we don't have this issue at all? thanks, greg k-h - 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/