Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 3.0-rc2 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:21:46 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 10:02 +0300, Tarkan Erimer wrote: > On 06/07/2011 09:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I suspect not a lot of people actually use the tarballs these days. > > It's just much more convenient to get the tree with git. > > > I always use tarballs instead of git. Because; I have several Linux > boxes and just one time I download the kernel tarball then spreading it > with scp to other Linux boxes easily. Otherwise, I have to prepare a > tarball by myself to distribute it which is a time waste and > unpractical. Also, getting the whole 700-800 MB of kernel tree with git > is not very Internet bandwidth (Consider that in some ISPs and > countries, Internet usage is limited by monthly quotas.) friendly.
My connection is crappy 400 kbit/s, but I use git easily. I set up a git server, pull upstream daily, and all my boxen can then pull whatever mainline/stable branch on local network. Initial clone hurts, but daily pulls don't.
-Mike
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