linux-kernel - Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

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Date:	Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:11:46 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	nigel@...el.suspend2.net, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	"J.H." <warthog9@...nel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	webmaster@...nel.org, Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:22:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>Not really.  In fact, it would hardly help at all.
> >>
> >>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.
> 
> 
> Would kernel hackers be amenable to having their trees auto-repacked, 
> and linked via alternatives to Linus's linux-2.6.git?
> 
> Looking through kernel.org, we have a ton of repositories, however 
> packed, that carrying their own copies of the linux-2.6.git repo.

Well, I create my repos by doing a:
	git clone -l --bare
which makes a hardlink from Linus's tree.

But then it gets copied over to the public server, which probably severs
that hardlink :(

Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we
don't have this issue at all?

thanks,

greg k-h
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