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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:16:57 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com> To: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> cc: Sean <seanlkml@...patico.ca>, Dax Kelson <dax@...ulabs.com>, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>, Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:00:48PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > > > for the tarball users they would have to grab > > multiple patches to get from the last thing that they have to whatever is > > current. > > ketchup solves that problem. One command brings any tree up to current. so are you saying that ketchup should be used for _all_ access to the vanilla tree that isn't done via git? if not then tarballs still have a place. and how does ketchup deal with patched trees to start with? > > also people could be behind a firewall that prevents git from working properly, > > for them tarballs and patches are the right way of doing things. > > If they can't git through a firewall, they won't be able to wget a tarball through > it either. to work properly git should talk it's own protocol, http/ftp can be allowed (and authenticated) through firewalls that don't allow the git protocol. David Lang > Dave > - 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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