Re: Problem with clone hanging

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Aug 7, 2006, 20:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20060807200540.GA24206@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <20060807183230.GA14955@procyon.home>

Quoting r. Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>:

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> Subject: Re: Problem with clone hanging
> 
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:23:20AM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 21:52 +0400, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> > 
> > > In the meantime, you can try to specify a local clone of the mainline
> > > Linux repository with the --reference=... option to git-clone. 
> > 
> > Thanks.  I don't know if what I'm cloning is actually a kernel tree,
> > unfortunately.
> 
> At least git ls-remote git://www.mellanox.co.il/~git/infiniband
> suggests this.  Of course, it might contains some completely unrelated
> branches (with git this is possible), but at least you won't need to
> download the whole kernel history since 2.6.12-rc2.

Exactly. It's a kernel-tree + other stuff.

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MST