How to git clone kernel source fast?

From: freeman.zhang1992@gmail.com (Freeman Zhang)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to git clone kernel source fast?
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:22:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54893836.703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe87037.93b3.14a37ea2cf5.Coremail.michaelbest002@126.com>

Hi Michael,

I am an undergraduate from China. I asked a similar question in the list
several days ago.

Considering the connecting situation in my city(Nanjing, Jiangsu), I
used CHINATELECOM and it can speed up over 2MB/s when cloning the souce
tree. I don't think it is the GFW that causes trouble.

My suggestion is changing to another ISP. Alternatively, I can share my
mainline kernel tree(git cloned from git.kernel.org) with you via Baidu Pan:

	http://pan.baidu.com/s/1pJ5akjD

You need to `git pull` to update it after uncompressing because it is a
little bit out-of-date.

Hope this can help!
Freeman

-------- Original Message --------
> Hi, Ming Lin
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> 
> I'm a college student in China. My research for the master degree is related to Linux kernel, which has driven me to learn a lot about the kernel. Thus It  makes me eager to be a kernel contributor. I want to participate the project "Block layer projects that I haven't had time for" raised by Kent. I have read the mails about it in lkml and the source code.
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> But there is still two problems. 
> 1. Until now my way of getting source is directly download tar package from kernel.org. I know it will be better to use git, but I found that it is quite slow with the speed of only 20 KB per second. I have configured my PC to by pass the annoying GFW so I think it is nothing with it.
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> I guess you're also in China from your name and you are also participating in this project. So could you help me with it?
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> 2. I'm not quite sure about which tree should I clone and whether the bcache branch is contained in mainline kernel tree. If not, should I clone the bcache tree from this address http://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git? 
> And I found the address https://github.com/dongsupark/linux%3E gives me a 404 not found response, which is mentioned in lkml by Donsu Park
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> 
> Thanks a lot!
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> Michael
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