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Message-ID: <20110121032310.GA28289@WALL-E>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:23:10 -0500
From:	nobody <darwinskernel@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: tag&track [Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc1]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:42:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:10 PM, nobody <darwinskernel@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > i wish i could do that for everything. i am pulling up to 500MiB every
> > -rc cycle and mostly codes for hardwares i don't have.
> 
> No you're not.

... i was lying.

> So no, you're not pulling 500MiB every -rc cycle, unless you're doing
> something stupid like using http (which will trigger a re-fetch, since
> I end up repacking a couple of times a release) or always re-cloning.

re-cloning to reclaim disk space. but disk space is not the only thing;
i can compile a tar release all in ram (1G) but re-cloning 388M into a
build directory there is a no go.

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