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Re: clone --bare 2.6.24.y with --reference linus.git too big?

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LRLuciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2008, 18:30 UTC
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 06:25:45PM +0000, Luciano Rocha wrote: <snip>

> I expected a much smaller download, as the difference between the heads
> of both trees are only a few patches (2.6.24 -> 2.6.24.2).
Correction: as there are only a few patches on 2.6.24.y tree that aren't
in Linus's. Linus's tree head is now, of course, very much ahead of
2.6.24.y.
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Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>
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