Re: [BUG] New Kernel Bugs

Mark Lord
2007-11-13T18:44:37Z

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
>> It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else.
>
> Where do you get this number from?
> $ du -sh .git/objects/pack/
> 249M .git/objects/pack/
> $ du -sh .git/objects/
> 253M .git/objects/
>
> ie about half what you claim.
..

No, it's from earlier in this very thread:

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The small instruction below is enough for everyone who is able to
> build his own kernel to do a git bisect.
..
> <-- snip -->
>
>
> # install git
>
> # clone Linus' tree:
> git clone \
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
..

mkdir t
cd t
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
(wait half an hour)
/usr/bin/du -s linux-2.6
522732 linux-2.6