From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:14:29 -0400 Message-ID: <42B9FEE5.1090305@pobox.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622224003.GA21298@redhat.com> <42B9EA67.1040407@pobox.com> <20050622225255.GB21298@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 23 02:14:10 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DlFM7-0000yY-4O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:14:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261889AbVFWASE (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:18:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261880AbVFWARa (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:17:30 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:17073 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261175AbVFWAOc (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:14:32 -0400 Received: from cpe-065-184-065-144.nc.res.rr.com ([65.184.65.144] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.51 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DlFMV-0002sS-8N; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:14:31 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Dave Jones In-Reply-To: <20050622225255.GB21298@redhat.com> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > At worse, users will have tools 59 minutes old. If a situation arises > where git from an hour ago isn't new enough to pull from the repository, > we have bigger problems. > > You seem to be proposing that everyone needs the shiniest newest things, > which clearly isn't true, and suggesting so just complicates things > further imo. For the purposes of the these instructions, it is highly recommended. However, I was unaware that your snapshots were updated hourly. Yeah, that's quite fine. Jeff