Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:39:56 +0100
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7
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On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:32:02AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Another option might be to stop generating the .bz2 files, of course. 
> Anybody who cares more about network bandwidth than CPU use (ie people who 
> would seem to prefer bz2) would be better off using git instead, which 
> packs things _way_ better, by virtue of being much more incremental.

The .bz2 files are downloaded by the ketchup script. I use it sometimes
to get a specific kernel tree version on a machine without having to
look up the urls to download them manually. So there are users for the
.bz2 files too ;-)

	Joerg

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