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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:33:38PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > >On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > > > 
 > > > Things in git-land are moving at lightning speed, and usability has 
 > > > improved a lot since my post a month ago:  
 > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11
 > > > 
 > > > 
 > > > 
 > > > 1) installing git
 > > > 
 > > > git requires bootstrapping, since you must have git installed in order 
 > > > to check out git.git (git repo), and linux-2.6.git (kernel repo).  I 
 > > > have put together a bootstrap tarball of today's git repository.
 > > > 
 > > > Download tarball from:
 > > > 
 > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2
 > >
 > ><blatant self-promotion>
 > >daily snapshots (refreshed once an hour) are available at:
 > >http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/git/
 > ></blatant self-promotion>
 > 
 > I was about to link to this, but a problem arose:  your snapshots don't 
 > include the .git/objects directory.

This is intentional.  Why is this a problem ?
In the same way, the bitkeeper snapshots I used to do never included
Bitkeeper/, and CVS snapshots don't include the CVS/ dirs.

 > Also, a git-latest.tar.gz symlink would be nice.

That's doable.

		Dave