Re: [KORG] Re: kernel.org lies about latest -mm kernel

Greg KH [off-list ref] writes:

Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we
don't have this issue at all?

"clone -l -s" has been there for quote a long time (since mid Aug
2005).  Because -s implies -l since end of November 2005, you
should be able to say

	git clone --bare -s ..../torvalds/linux-2.6.git stable-queue.git

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Greg KH [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Any shortcut to clone or set up a repo using "alternatives" so that we
don't have this issue at all?

"clone -l -s" has been there for quote a long time (since mid Aug
2005).  Because -s implies -l since end of November 2005, you
should be able to say

	git clone --bare -s ..../torvalds/linux-2.6.git stable-queue.git

Yes but what about existing trees?

Can you add an alternatives file, then prune, and get the same result as 
if you had done a clone -s ?

	Jeff

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Yes but what about existing trees?

Can you add an alternatives file, then prune, and get the same result as if
you had done a clone -s ?

Yes. Also do

	git repack -a -d -l

where the "-l" flag is the magic (it says to repack only objects that 
aren't already packed in the alternate repository)

		Linus

On 1/8/07, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

quoted

Yes but what about existing trees?
Can you add an alternatives file, then prune, and get the same result as if
you had done a clone -s ?

Yes. Also do
        git repack -a -d -l

where the "-l" flag is the magic (it says to repack only objects that
aren't already packed in the alternate repository)

If all kernel.org repos get git-repack -a -d -l and git-pack-refs,
gitweb will see a significant speedup, as some up-to-date checks
become extremely cheap.

cheers



martin