On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:40:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Sure, if you want to keep the build tree around, you would probably not > > use branches. > > Side note: it's often faster to recompile, if your project has a good > build system. > > For example, for the kernel, I can literally rebuild my whole kernel > (which is just what I use on _that_ machine) in about 16 seconds. This is > _not_ using ccache or anything else - it's rebuilding the whole tree with > -j16. > Is it after make mrproper (wow)? Or is it when your branches are "recent"? Because for me (and well, I dont have that beefy boxes as you do) swithing between "for-linus" and "next" that based off a revision in vicinity of 2.6.xx-rc1 and "work" which tracks the tip of your tree takes time to rebuild. -- Dmitry -- 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
