Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:43:53 -0500

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
>> It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else.
> 
> Where do you get this number from?
> $ du -sh .git/objects/pack/
> 249M    .git/objects/pack/
> $ du -sh .git/objects/
> 253M    .git/objects/
> 
> ie about half what you claim.
..

No, it's from earlier in this very thread:

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The small instruction below is enough for everyone who is able to 
> build his own kernel to do a git bisect.
..
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> 
> # install git
> 
> # clone Linus' tree:
> git clone \ 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
..

mkdir t
cd t
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
(wait half an hour)
/usr/bin/du -s linux-2.6
522732  linux-2.6