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Message-Id: <200711132309.11874.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:09:09 +0100
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To: Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
alsa-devel@...a-project.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
protasnb@...il.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs
On Tuesday, 13 of November 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:43:53PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> >
> >> mkdir t
> >> cd t
> >> git clone
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> >> (wait half an hour)
> >> /usr/bin/du -s linux-2.6
> >> 522732 linux-2.6
> >
> > You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's
> > not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you do a
> > checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the linux-2.6
> > directory.
> ..
>
> Ah, I wondered why it took only half an hour to download.
>
> ..
> > When you compare it to the 60MB tarballs that are published, it's really
> > not that bad.
> ..
>
> The tarballs I download are only 45MB.
You clone the git repo once. Afterwards, you only update it and that usually
doesn't take that much time and a little effort.
Greetings,
Rafael
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