Linux kernel repository [LWN.net]

Linux kernel repository

Posted Sep 17, 2005 2:30 UTC (Sat) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: Mercurial v0.7 released

Mercurial repository of Linux kernel is available kernel.org:
http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/

As for git packs, they require "intelligent transport" to be effective, and it's still not enabled on kernel.org. In fact, cogito doesn't support git packs yet (you can call "git-fetch; cg-merge origin" instead of "cg-update").

Pulling the kernel over slow connection (802.11b to my generous neighbor) is a nightmare. cogito is pulling all branches from the repository, even those I'll never need. git-fetch is trying to load a 73M long pack, although my repository was up-to-date a week ago. I'm seriously considering switching to mercurial for kernel development. In fact, I'm running "hg pull" as I'm typing this.

If only somebody ported gitk to work with mercurial! Using web interface to examine local changes feels strange to me.

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Linux kernel repository

Posted Sep 17, 2005 2:49 UTC (Sat) by katzj (guest, #23350) [Link]

Look at hgk in the contrib directory. It's supposed to be basically a direct port of gitk to hg.

Linux kernel repository

Posted Sep 22, 2005 18:46 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Strange, I've been using cogito for a long time with the kernel repository, and it doesn't get 75+MiB when I update it, just new stuff (quite a lot, usually; but that isn't cogito's fault ;-). And packs work too, have worked for quite some time. Perhaps you updated cogito, and not the underlying git?