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Packing on kernel.org

From
MCMartin Coxall <quasi@cream.org>
Date
Oct 1, 2005, 09:02 UTC
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<068ea79fc648433faa44a6d4cc287614@cream.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0509302320560.3378@g5.osdl.org>

Was there an cron process or kernel.org that should be repacking the public repositories periodically?

The git/cogito/sparse/linux-2.6 repositories all now have several thousand unpacked objects a piece, and it takes so long to do an http clone it's not even funny.

Martin
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: H. Peter Anvin
Message 3 of 4 in “Flag empty patches as errors”
  1. Linus TorvaldsOct 1, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 1, 2005
  3. Packing on kernel.orgMartin Coxall, Oct 1, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinOct 1, 2005

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