Re: Arrr! Linux v2.6.14-rc2

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Sean wrote:
> On Tue, September 20, 2005 10:25 am, Gene Heskett said:
> 
> 
>>Humm, what are they holding out for, more ram or more cpu?:-)
>>
>>FWIW, http://master.kernel.org doesn't show it either just now.
> 
> 
> Gene,
> 
> While kernel.org snapshots will no doubt be working again shortly, you
> might want to consider using git.  It reduces the amount you have to
> download for each release a lot.
> 
> It's really easy to grab a copy of git and use it to grab the kernel:
> 
> mkdir kernel
> cd kernel
> wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2
> tar -xvjf git-core-0.99.7.tar.bz2
> cd git-core-0.99.7
> make install
> cd ..
> 
> git clone \
> rsync://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git \
> linux
> 
> cd linux
> git checkout
> 
> 
> The above is given as an attachment as well because of annoying word wrap
> issues with the long url's.   Anyway, after that you can stay current with
> the latest Linus release with a simple  "git pull".

But that pulls the current tree, doesn't it? Not the git release?

For purposes of bug reporting and fixing, I would think that having some 
reproducible version is superior. If I say git3, anyone can get it, it 
would appear that "git pull" isn't as deterministic.

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