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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 06:09:18 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
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Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:29:35PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi again.
> 
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 21:17 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > >> 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).
> 
> I went looking for documentation on how to use the alternates feature,
> and found an email from September 2005
> (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/2860.html) that
> says:
> 
> <quote>
> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$tree
> 
> Of course, you may have more than one such $tree. The
> suggestion by Linus was to do (please do not do this yet -- that
> is what this message is about):
> 
> $ cd /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$tree
> $ cat /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6/objects \
> >objects/info/alternates
> $ GIT_DIR=. git prune
> </quote>
> 
> Are these instructions still correct in the case of master.kernel.org?

It works for me (instead of "git prune" I was using 
"git-repack -a -d -l -f").

> Regards,
> 
> Nigel

cu
Adrian

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