From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jon Smirl" Subject: Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:17:56 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733910707221717u2ce828ccsc7cc5812d129dfc9@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910707221349s462aa11bj714956f7cdc72aac@mail.gmail.com> <20070722211314.GA13850@linux-sh.org> <46A3D5EA.2050600@zytor.com> <46A3E7BA.6030609@partiallystapled.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Git Mailing List" , lkml To: "Michael Tharp" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 23 02:18:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IClci-0006nS-Bs for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:18:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762866AbXGWASA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:18:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762882AbXGWASA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:18:00 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:11006 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757672AbXGWAR5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:17:57 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1797167wah for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bpLoHYkEr/jKNIeqbbm1QQ+e2vyrdgNt0eityp7zqMd+g2rQAr462x3XKbaF+1UT42Dawuos+3F3lglXR8WiGbtWltlvxSRaOGLPmX5zNvY/D1GzmIPgNQeTwNwOkf7+5x47GwVwpYAPaoxsifr2WitElUjXQZAxeVrnqeeJn+Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=REi1uq/atOvBqH1EzEbIDkkm1khQ9rkVxg+kNaXP0sKVn4IBM8eEgvxWxjSnOUElzqjdIeTnl0jzRe8dr2E0MzP9BOnAu5TWfHivxYSDE7ZlA6rUWWyKl8KDszbDg06jQD3TlEQk3/Ft2gwmWMSqjEy+dClqtwGXVsf+6fT1RJI= Received: by 10.114.77.1 with SMTP id z1mr2468377waa.1185149876656; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.195.5 with HTTP; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:17:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46A3E7BA.6030609@partiallystapled.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 7/22/07, Michael Tharp wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Wouldn't be hard to make a git tree with all the patches all the way > > back to 0.01 even... > > It'd be delightful from a completeness standpoint (and I do love > completeness), but considering it already takes a good 20 minutes to > clone the 2.6 tree over a respectable cable connection, I'd have to > object on the grounds of size. Now, if it was kept off in its own tree > for people who don't mind ravaging kernel.org resources to satisfy their > own curiosity, that's fine too. git has an extremely effective diffing mechanism. You may surprised at how little it adds. For example, git compressed the 2.6GB mozilla cvs tree down to 400MB. I used to clone trees all the time, but now I'm much better at using git and I haven't cloned a complete tree from kernel.org in a year. git remote is a cool feature. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com