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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	linux-next <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	users@kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Removing old tags, reducing the git size of -next.
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:41:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D774B4C.7030409@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110309032332.da40748b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On 8.3.2011 17:23, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:29:29 +0100 Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I use the following setup for linux-next:
>>
>> [remote "linux-next"]
>>         url =
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git
> 
> This should now be
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
> (its the same repository, just a more generic name).
> 
>>         fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/linux-next
>>         fetch = +refs/heads/stable:refs/remotes/linux-next/stable
>>         tagopt = --no-tags
>>
>> and fetch the next-* tags manually only when I need them.
> 
> That should all continue to work.

I probably quoted the wrong part of your email. I wanted to show that
the full history of linux-next is not forced on anyone; git can be
configured to only fetch the latest state and leave the previously
fetched states to the garbage collector.

Michal

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1299039746.4208.28.camel@Joe-Laptop>
2011-03-02  5:54 ` RFC: Removing old tags, reducing the git size of -next Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-08 15:29   ` Michal Marek
2011-03-08 16:23     ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-09  9:41       ` Michal Marek [this message]

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