On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:22:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>Not really. In fact, it would hardly help at all.
> >>
> >>The two things git users can do to help is:
> >>
> >>1. Make sure your alternatives file is set up correctly;
> >>2. Keep your trees packed and pruned, to keep the file count down.
> >>
> >>If you do this, the load imposed by a single git tree is fairly negible.
>
>
> Would kernel hackers be amenable to having their trees auto-repacked,
> and linked via alternatives to Linus's linux-2.6.git?
>
> Looking through kernel.org, we have a ton of repositories, however
> packed, that carrying their own copies of the linux-2.6.git repo.
Well, I create my repos by doing a:
git clone -l --bare
which makes a hardlink from Linus's tree.
But then it gets copied over to the public server, which probably severs
that hardlink :(
Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we
don't have this issue at all?
thanks,
greg k-h
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