On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:22:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Not really. In fact, it would hardly help at all. > >> > >>The two things git users can do to help is: > >> > >>1. Make sure your alternatives file is set up correctly; > >>2. Keep your trees packed and pruned, to keep the file count down. > >> > >>If you do this, the load imposed by a single git tree is fairly negible. > > > Would kernel hackers be amenable to having their trees auto-repacked, > and linked via alternatives to Linus's linux-2.6.git? > > Looking through kernel.org, we have a ton of repositories, however > packed, that carrying their own copies of the linux-2.6.git repo. Well, I create my repos by doing a: git clone -l --bare which makes a hardlink from Linus's tree. But then it gets copied over to the public server, which probably severs that hardlink :( Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we don't have this issue at all? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html