From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261909AbVFWASG (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:18:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261904AbVFWARc (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:17:32 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:17073 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261175AbVFWAOc (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:14:32 -0400 Message-ID: <42B9FEE5.1090305@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:14:29 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622224003.GA21298@redhat.com> <42B9EA67.1040407@pobox.com> <20050622225255.GB21298@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050622225255.GB21298@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dave Jones wrote: > At worse, users will have tools 59 minutes old. If a situation arises > where git from an hour ago isn't new enough to pull from the repository, > we have bigger problems. > > You seem to be proposing that everyone needs the shiniest newest things, > which clearly isn't true, and suggesting so just complicates things > further imo. For the purposes of the these instructions, it is highly recommended. However, I was unaware that your snapshots were updated hourly. Yeah, that's quite fine. Jeff