linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0-rc2

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Message-ID: <1307431306.9428.16.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:21:46 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...knetserver.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, david@...g.hm,
	Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc2

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 10:02 +0300, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 09:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I suspect not a lot of people actually use the tarballs these days. 
> > It's just much more convenient to get the tree with git. 
> 
> 
> I always use tarballs instead of git. Because; I have several Linux 
> boxes and just one time I download the kernel tarball then spreading it 
> with scp to other Linux boxes easily. Otherwise, I have to prepare a 
> tarball by myself to distribute it which is a time waste and 
> unpractical. Also, getting the whole 700-800 MB of kernel tree with git 
> is not very Internet bandwidth (Consider that in some ISPs and 
> countries, Internet usage is limited by monthly quotas.) friendly.

My connection is crappy 400 kbit/s, but I use git easily.  I set up a
git server, pull upstream daily, and all my boxen can then pull whatever
mainline/stable branch on local network.  Initial clone hurts, but daily
pulls don't.

	-Mike

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