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DISCUSSION Ralf Baechle 4 participants 4 messages Jan 30, 2006 – Jan 31, 2006 MIPS

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As some of you have been complained - the kernel git repository has become rather large with it's currently slightly over 200MB. Since most users are not interested in the full 12 year project history I've prepared a second, slimmed down repository. It can be cloned at:

git clone git://www.linux-mips.org/git/linux-2.6.15.git linux.git

This tree is just about 62MB in size and starts at 2.6.15.

Ralf

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How about making it linux-nohist.git or something like that, to make it less misleading?

Quoted 13 lines · Ralf Baechle

As some of you have been complained - the kernel git repository has become rather large with it's currently slightly over 200MB. Since most users are not interested in the full 12 year project history I've prepared a second, slimmed down repository. It can be cloned at:

git clone git://www.linux-mips.org/git/linux-2.6.15.git linux.git

This tree is just about 62MB in size and starts at 2.6.15.

Ralf

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Quoted 5 lines · Ralf Baechle

As some of you have been complained - the kernel git repository has become rather large with it's currently slightly over 200MB. Since most users are not interested in the full 12 year project history I've prepared a second, slimmed down repository. It can be cloned at:

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git clone git://www.linux-mips.org/git/linux-2.6.15.git linux.git

This tree is just about 62MB in size and starts at 2.6.15.

Ralf

How about making it linux-nohist.git or something like that, to make it less misleading?

Or rename the full-history one to linux-old.git -- since I presume future commits will be going to the new one now? Either that, or linux-fullhist.git.

Otherwise, I love the idea. :-) I can't say I've ever used any of the v1.1 kernels...

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Quoted 8 lines · Ralf Baechle

As some of you have been complained - the kernel git repository has become rather large with it's currently slightly over 200MB. Since most users are not interested in the full 12 year project history I've prepared a second, slimmed down repository. It can be cloned at:

git clone git://www.linux-mips.org/git/linux-2.6.15.git linux.git

This tree is just about 62MB in size and starts at 2.6.15.

Do you intent to work on that tree? ...or keep the other one as the "master" tree? ...or actually dump the mips-linux history and go for Linus' tree?

The point is, really, HDD space is cheap these days. While the initial download may be painfull, it's only 200 MB. Hell, back in those times, I kept a Debian unstable box up'to'date with an analog modem at 28k8Bd and that worked just fine (though it took an hour or two every day:-)

MfG, JBG

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