From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751523Ab1FGHDY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:03:24 -0400 Received: from smtp.turknetserver.com ([193.192.122.40]:34851 "EHLO smtp.turknetserver.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751299Ab1FGHDX (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 03:03:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4DEDCCFF.10801@turknetserver.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:02:23 +0300 From: Tarkan Erimer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110531 Thunderbird/5.0b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: david@lang.hm, Alessandro Suardi , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc2 References: <81e5df54-4987-40ba-9333-79665efda719@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <81e5df54-4987-40ba-9333-79665efda719@email.android.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/07/2011 09:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I suspect not a lot of people actually use the tarballs these days. > It's just much more convenient to get the tree with git. I always use tarballs instead of git. Because; I have several Linux boxes and just one time I download the kernel tarball then spreading it with scp to other Linux boxes easily. Otherwise, I have to prepare a tarball by myself to distribute it which is a time waste and unpractical. Also, getting the whole 700-800 MB of kernel tree with git is not very Internet bandwidth (Consider that in some ISPs and countries, Internet usage is limited by monthly quotas.) friendly. BTW, I'm eagerly waiting to test out the latest 3.0-rc2 when the corrected tarballs uploaded to kernel.org :-) Tarkan