Subject: Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:11:46 -0800

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:22:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>Not really.  In fact, it would hardly help at all.
> >>
> >>The two things git users can do to help is:
> >>
> >>1. Make sure your alternatives file is set up correctly;
> >>2. Keep your trees packed and pruned, to keep the file count down.
> >>
> >>If you do this, the load imposed by a single git tree is fairly negible.
> 
> 
> Would kernel hackers be amenable to having their trees auto-repacked, 
> and linked via alternatives to Linus's linux-2.6.git?
> 
> Looking through kernel.org, we have a ton of repositories, however 
> packed, that carrying their own copies of the linux-2.6.git repo.

Well, I create my repos by doing a:
	git clone -l --bare
which makes a hardlink from Linus's tree.

But then it gets copied over to the public server, which probably severs
that hardlink :(

Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we
don't have this issue at all?

thanks,

greg k-h