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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:21:46 +0200 From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> To: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...knetserver.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, david@...g.hm, Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc2 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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