Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 May 2003 10:28:38 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Kernel source tree splitting |
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Balram Adlakha wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 07:54:03AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> I have seven source trees on disk right now. Getting rid off all >>the archs but i386 would not only save tons of space, it would also >>make 'grep -r' go faster and stop spewing irrelevant hits for archs >>that I couldn't care less about.
> > I agree with you. Making different trees for different archs will make the tarball much smaller. Usually people only use one architecture and the other code lies waste. I think this has been discussed many times but It really is worth doing.
How about a script to just prune it once you download it. That will at least fix your disk space & grep issue, and will not affect those of us who like to see it all.
If you want to save download bandwidth, just use incremental diffs and/or something like bk or one of the cvs exports.
Ben
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