From: Mike Galbraith Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:42:54 GMT Subject: Re: pulling Already up-to-date linux-2.6 repo takes ~8 minutes? Message-ID: <1192686174.7390.23.camel@Homer.simpson.net> In-Reply-To: <1192685971.7390.21.camel@Homer.simpson.net> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 07:39 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 07:09 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > 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 > > Dang. git was happy with everything above except the checkout -b > master, so I can't get off the dangling limb I'm on, and onto a solid > branch. Pff. -f. Thanks, ~4 second pull is MUCH better :) -Mike