Re: problem with git.kernel.org

Stefan Richter
2008-12-15T10:23:21Z

devzero@web.de wrote:
> IŽm trying to download a btrfs snapshot via http ( http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable-standalone.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD
> ) to be able to try btrfs with current kernel, but i get no tar.gz but just see "Generating....." for a long time and then getting a timeout.
>
> this seems to apply to all git repositories hosted on kernel.org.
>
> For comparison, this one behaves as expected:
> http://gitweb.opencompositing.org/?p=fusion/decorators/emerald;a=snapshot;h=HEAD

The kernel repo is more than 100 times as big as this emerald repo, 400
times as big perhaps. Try to download with git.

> As there is no adress how to contact, can someone confirm and/or please forward this mail to the gitweb admin ?

www.kernel.org lists a contact address.
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Stefan Richter
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