Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 May 2011 13:13:51 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] Turning off the incremental diff robot |
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On 05/31/2011 01:04 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Are you talking about just ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/*/incr/ > or also about ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-* and > Changelog-*? > > I can see reasons to keep the latter, but not necessarily the former. >
The former only.
>> >> Usecase one is zaurus, which is just not powerful enough for git, and >> usecase two are companies that only work with releases... ketchup is >> very useful for both. > > For usecase one, is it possible to replace the download links with > links into http://git.kernel.org/ ? > > For usecase two, why wouldn't those be able to just download the entire > release tarball? At least, I would expect that there is no need for > the small incremental patches in their case, only for the full > inter-release patches. >
Zaurus I don't consider too important; anyone with a Zaurus is realistically going to have a real development platform on hand.
-hpa
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