From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Balram Adlakha <b_adlakha@softhome.net>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel source tree splitting
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 10:28:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB15946.4000506@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030501172238.GA13756@localhost.localdomain>
Balram Adlakha wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 07:54:03AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> I have seven source trees on disk right now. Getting rid off all
>>the archs but i386 would not only save tons of space, it would also
>>make 'grep -r' go faster and stop spewing irrelevant hits for archs
>>that I couldn't care less about.
>
> I agree with you. Making different trees for different archs will make the tarball much smaller. Usually people only use one architecture and the other code lies waste. I think this has been discussed many times but It really is worth doing.
How about a script to just prune it once you download it. That will at least fix your
disk space & grep issue, and will not affect those of us who like to see it all.
If you want to save download bandwidth, just use incremental diffs and/or something
like bk or one of the cvs exports.
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-01 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-01 11:54 Kernel source tree splitting Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-01 14:06 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-01 14:20 ` Willy TARREAU
2003-05-01 14:35 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-01 14:43 ` Willy TARREAU
2003-05-01 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2003-05-01 15:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-01 17:22 ` Balram Adlakha
2003-05-01 17:28 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2003-05-01 20:03 ` John Bradford
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-01 16:00 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-30 23:46 rmoser
2003-05-01 0:21 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-01 0:44 ` rmoser
2003-05-01 2:51 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-01 10:13 ` rmoser
2003-05-01 0:52 ` Larry McVoy
2003-05-01 1:00 ` rmoser
2003-05-01 17:28 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-05-01 4:10 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-01 6:14 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-05-01 6:14 ` Peter Riocreux
2003-05-02 0:09 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-02 0:41 ` rmoser
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