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SubjectRe: Kernel source tree splitting
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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