From: Petr Baudis Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:30:06 GMT Subject: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one? Message-ID: <20050417223006.GN1461@pasky.ji.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050417150921.58d6db68.rddunlap@osdl.org> Dear diary, on Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:09:21AM CEST, I got a letter where "Randy.Dunlap" told me that... > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:50:40 +0200 Jochen Roemling wrote: > > | Linus Torvalds wrote: > | > | >Ie we have two phases to the merge: first get the objects, with something > | >like > | > > | > repo=kernel.org:/pub/kernel/people/torvalds/linux-2.6.git > | > rsync --ignore-existing -acv $(repo)/ .git/ > | > > | > > | Could you place a tarball there for people like me who are no "real" > | kernel hackers and don't have a kernel.org account? Or is there an > | "anonymous" account that I'm just to ignorant to know of? > > You don't need a kernel.org account to rsync it... this works too: > > rsync -avz -e ssh --progress --ignore-existing rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ .git/ Or mkdir linux-2.6.git cd linux-2.6.git RSYNC_FLAGS="--progress --stats" git init rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ which also does the initial checkout for you. ;-) (Requires latest git-pasky, though.) Then you can bring the latest and greatest to your tree by a mere git pull. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor