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SubjectRe: Linux 3.0-rc2
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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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