Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> You're assuming that everything in linux-2.6 was downloaded; that's >>> not true. Everything in linux-2.6/.git was downloaded; but then you >>> do a checkout which happens to approximately double the size of the >>> linux-2.6 directory. >> .. >> >> Ah, I wondered why it took only half an hour to download. > > and you can get even lower than the 260MB by downloading a shallow clone > of v2.6.23 and then populating the git tree from tht point on. (see the > --depth parameter of git-clone) [because most of the time you want to > bisect back to the last stable release, not back to 2 years of git > history.]
When creating additional git trees (Linville's wireless-2.6 tree, for example) for driver development, you can save a lot of download bandwidth by using the --reference parameter of git-clone. Larry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
