Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:39:56 +0100 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 |
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On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:32:02AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Another option might be to stop generating the .bz2 files, of course. > Anybody who cares more about network bandwidth than CPU use (ie people who > would seem to prefer bz2) would be better off using git instead, which > packs things _way_ better, by virtue of being much more incremental.
The .bz2 files are downloaded by the ketchup script. I use it sometimes to get a specific kernel tree version on a machine without having to look up the urls to download them manually. So there are users for the .bz2 files too ;-)
Joerg
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