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Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Nigel Cunningham wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> I've have git trees against a few versions besides Linus', and have just >>> moved all but Linus' to staging to help until you can get your new >>> hardware. If others were encouraged to do the same, it might help a lot? >>> >> 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. > > Sorry for the slow reply, and the ignorance... what's an alternatives > file? I've never heard of them before. > Just a minor correction; it's the "alternates" file (objects/info/alternates). -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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