From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:49:31 -0600 Message-ID: <473B0AFB.2080400@lwfinger.net> References: <20071113.035824.40509981.davem@davemloft.net> <20071113041259.79c9a8c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071113134029.GA30978@elte.hu> <4739AFE0.20705@rtr.ca> <20071113164650.GA28493@elte.hu> <4739E3D0.10201@rtr.ca> <20071113183925.GF17785@parisc-linux.org> <4739F069.6050102@rtr.ca> <20071113184902.GG17785@parisc-linux.org> <4739F2DD.5050802@rtr.ca> <20071114143040.GA31025@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071114143040.GA31025@elte.hu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mark Lord , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Matthew Wilcox , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, protasnb@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Andrew Morton , David Miller List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Mark Lord wrote: > >>> You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's >>> not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you >>> do a checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the >>> linux-2.6 directory. >> .. >> >> Ah, I wondered why it took only half an hour to download. > > and you can get even lower than the 260MB by downloading a shallow clone > of v2.6.23 and then populating the git tree from tht point on. (see the > --depth parameter of git-clone) [because most of the time you want to > bisect back to the last stable release, not back to 2 years of git > history.] When creating additional git trees (Linville's wireless-2.6 tree, for example) for driver development, you can save a lot of download bandwidth by using the --reference parameter of git-clone. Larry