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

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Message-ID: <473B0AFB.2080400@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:49:31 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <larry.finger@...inger.net>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, 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

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.]

When creating additional git trees (Linville's wireless-2.6 tree, for example) for driver
development, you can save a lot of download bandwidth by using the --reference parameter of git-clone.

Larry
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