From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: update 'getting sparse' info.
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:45:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070309004526.GA17459@redhat.com> (raw)
- point to the sparse webpage
- use git:// instead of rsync://
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
--- linux-2.6.20.noarch/Documentation/sparse.txt~ 2007-03-08 19:40:30.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.20.noarch/Documentation/sparse.txt 2007-03-08 19:43:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -45,11 +45,15 @@ special.
Getting sparse
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-With git, you can just get it from
+You can get latest released versions from the Sparse homepage at
+http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/josh/sparse/
- rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git
+Alternatively, you can get snapshots of the latest development version
+of sparse using git to clone..
-and DaveJ has tar-balls at
+ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/sparse.git
+
+DaveJ has hourly generated tarballs of the git tree available at..
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next reply other threads:[~2007-03-09 0:45 UTC|newest]
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2007-03-09 0:45 Dave Jones [this message]
2007-03-09 1:11 ` update 'getting sparse' info H. Peter Anvin
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