From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Marek Subject: Re: RFC: Removing old tags, reducing the git size of -next. Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:41:32 +0100 Message-ID: <4D774B4C.7030409@suse.cz> References: <1299039746.4208.28.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20110302165447.f47fd4b2.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <4D764B59.1060801@suse.cz> <20110309032332.da40748b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56486 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756705Ab1CIJle (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2011 04:41:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110309032332.da40748b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Joe Perches , linux-next , LKML , users@kernel.org On 8.3.2011 17:23, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Michal, > > On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:29:29 +0100 Michal Marek wrote: >> >> FWIW, I use the following setup for linux-next: >> >> [remote "linux-next"] >> url = >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git > > This should now be > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git > (its the same repository, just a more generic name). > >> fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/linux-next >> fetch = +refs/heads/stable:refs/remotes/linux-next/stable >> tagopt = --no-tags >> >> and fetch the next-* tags manually only when I need them. > > That should all continue to work. I probably quoted the wrong part of your email. I wanted to show that the full history of linux-next is not forced on anyone; git can be configured to only fetch the latest state and leave the previously fetched states to the garbage collector. Michal