Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751552Ab1FGHVx (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:21:53 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:41665 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751055Ab1FGHVw (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:21:52 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/lv55CkNzlNxeas5IXlJvVk17RmGSJOmZHVNfoQm pQSMlc0uY0n2bJ Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc2 From: Mike Galbraith To: Tarkan Erimer Cc: Linus Torvalds , david@lang.hm, Alessandro Suardi , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4DEDCCFF.10801@turknetserver.com> References: <81e5df54-4987-40ba-9333-79665efda719@email.android.com> <4DEDCCFF.10801@turknetserver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:21:46 +0200 Message-ID: <1307431306.9428.16.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1221 Lines: 26 On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 10:02 +0300, Tarkan Erimer wrote: > On 06/07/2011 09:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I suspect not a lot of people actually use the tarballs these days. > > It's just much more convenient to get the tree with git. > > > I always use tarballs instead of git. Because; I have several Linux > boxes and just one time I download the kernel tarball then spreading it > with scp to other Linux boxes easily. Otherwise, I have to prepare a > tarball by myself to distribute it which is a time waste and > unpractical. Also, getting the whole 700-800 MB of kernel tree with git > is not very Internet bandwidth (Consider that in some ISPs and > countries, Internet usage is limited by monthly quotas.) friendly. My connection is crappy 400 kbit/s, but I use git easily. I set up a git server, pull upstream daily, and all my boxen can then pull whatever mainline/stable branch on local network. Initial clone hurts, but daily pulls don't. -Mike -- 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/