linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

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Message-ID: <20071114143040.GA31025@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:30:40 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, 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


* Mark Lord <liml@....ca> wrote:

>> 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.

and you can get even lower than the 260MB by downloading a shallow clone 
of v2.6.23 and then populating the git tree from tht point on. (see the 
--depth parameter of git-clone) [because most of the time you want to 
bisect back to the last stable release, not back to 2 years of git 
history.]

	Ingo

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