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Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Posted Oct 3, 2005 0:24 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3 by RMetz
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Indeed, that's pretty bad because many objects are packed, so you have to pull large packs (line 60 Mb - that's many hours). For repositories that are not packed (e.g. git), one can use "git-fetch -t", which gets the current tree but no historic objects. I cannot wait when the git protocol is supported on kernel.org. Maybe I'll try the Mercurial repository (http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/) - Mercurial seems to be more friendly to us, poor dial-up users. Although it's not of much value for me it I cannot track Jeff Garzik's netdev repository.


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