Re: pulling Already up-to-date linux-2.6 repo takes ~8 minutes?

From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 18, 2007, 05:09 UTC
Message-ID: <1192684150.7390.15.camel@Homer.simpson.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071018045001.GA14735@spearce.org>

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 00:50 -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> The problem here is you aren't on a branch, you are on a detached
> HEAD.  So we must have setup the wrong thing in .git/FETCH_HEAD
> and we didn't actually merge.

Aha. (I didn't setup anything that I can recall, followed a howto I found)

> What version of git is this, exactly (`git version`)?

git version 1.5.3.4.203.gcc61a

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> I'd suggest making your life a little bit easier.  Consider creating
> a remote that points to Linus:
> 
>   $ git remote add linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>   $ git checkout -b master   ; # or any other branch
>   $ git config branch.master.remote linus
>   $ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
> 
> Now you can update from Linus with just:
> 
>   $ git pull
> 
> Provided you are on branch "master", or whatever other branches
> you setup those branch.*.remote and branch.*.merge configuration
> options for.

Thanks, I appreciate it, kernel.org likely does too.

	-Mike