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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Historical kernel repository size
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 17:23 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > For better packing, I think I used a larger depth, ie try something like
> > > 
> > > 	git repack -a -f --depth=50
> > > 
> > when the pack is used.  So I'd suggest adding --window=50 to the above.
> 
> Great advise !
> 
> git repack neither accepts --depth nor --window

Is the GIT version on kernel.org _that_ old?

What a shame...


Nicolas