On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:07:25PM +0100, Ivan Korzakow wrote: > I know that but you miss my point. GIT is a tool to ease work on linux > kernel, but the way you use it makes harder life of users of your > tree. For example your tree contains more than 350 000 objects ! That > makes a lot of git commands running slow... Linus promised too look into that. He has too - it's what his tree would be facing in the not too distant future, otherwise. > Let's say I'm developing a net drivers on ARM platform. I'm actually > do not care about ARM development, but I do care about net tree. To do > that, I just need to clone net tree because I know that ARM should be > OK with this tree. What about MIPS ? > > I'm just wondering why not asking to Linus to pull from your tree like > every others maintainers do ? Like most other developers I create throw-away trees for that purpose, see the upstream-linus tree. Due to the way the Linux release process is working anything else is unrealistic. Ralf
