Matthew Wilcox wrote:

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:50:08PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:

quoted

It's a 540MByte download over a slow link for everyone else.

Where do you get this number from?
$ du -sh .git/objects/pack/
249M    .git/objects/pack/
$ du -sh .git/objects/
253M    .git/objects/

ie about half what you claim.

..

No, it's from earlier in this very thread:

Adrian Bunk wrote:

The small instruction below is enough for everyone who is able to 
build his own kernel to do a git bisect.

..

<--  snip  -->


# install git

# clone Linus' tree:
git clone \ 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

..

mkdir t
cd t
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
(wait half an hour)
/usr/bin/du -s linux-2.6
522732  linux-2.6