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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>, Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:24:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060921222443.GO26683@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609211455570.17238@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:00:48PM -0700, David Lang wrote:

 > for the tarball users they would have to grab 
 > multiple patches to get from the last thing that they have to whatever is 
 > current.

ketchup solves that problem. One command brings any tree up to current.

 > also people could be behind a firewall that prevents git from working properly, 
 > for them tarballs and patches are the right way of doing things.

If they can't git through a firewall, they won't be able to wget a tarball through
it either.

	Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-21 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-21 20:32 Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? Dax Kelson
     [not found] ` <20060921204250 .GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
2006-09-21 20:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
     [not found]   ` <20060921171747.9ae2b42e.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 21:17     ` Sean
2006-09-21 21:41     ` Dax Kelson
2006-09-21 21:50       ` Bob Copeland
     [not found]       ` <20060921175717.272c58ee.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 21:57         ` Sean
2006-09-21 22:00         ` David Lang
2006-09-21 22:24           ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-09-21 22:16             ` David Lang
2006-09-21 22:40               ` Dave Jones
2006-09-21 22:34                 ` David Lang
     [not found]                   ` <20060921193823.ec49d446.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 23:38                     ` Sean
     [not found]         ` <Pin e.LNX.4.63.0609211455570.17238@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
2006-09-21 22:25           ` Sean
     [not found]             ` <20060921182554.23044ca3.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-21 22:20               ` David Lang
2006-09-21 21:40   ` Dax Kelson
2006-09-22 14:00     ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-21 21:43   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 14:00     ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-22 16:13       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 16:13       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-22 16:33         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 17:41           ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-09-22 18:09             ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-22 18:19               ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-22 18:26                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-25 11:51                   ` Paulo Marques
2006-09-25 15:47                     ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-02  3:35 Drew Scott Daniels
2006-10-02  3:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-10-02  3:35 ` Willy Tarreau
     [not found]   ` <Pi ne.LNX.4.63.0610012205280.28534@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
2006-10-02  5:11   ` David Lang
2006-10-02  5:49     ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-02 15:16     ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-02 15:48       ` David Lang
2006-10-02 20:20         ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-02 20:12           ` David Lang
2006-10-02 20:35             ` Willy Tarreau
     [not found]             ` <2006 1002203527.GA585@1wt.eu>
2006-10-02 21:49               ` Sean
     [not found]                 ` <20061002174938.bb82027d.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-10-02 21:42                   ` David Lang
2006-10-03  2:48                   ` Willy Tarreau
2006-10-03 10:28   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-03 18:24     ` Phillip Susi

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