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Re: Old "sparse" archive converted..

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JGJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 24, 2005, 05:24 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Ok, I expanded on "convert-cache" quite a bit, to the point where it could
> actually re-write "commit" and "tree" objects entirely, at which point it
> now became possible to convert the broken old sparse archive that had the
> wrong date format in its commit objects, and had the old flat-file format
> for the "tree" objects.
> 
> I updated the tree at
> 
> 	kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/sparse.git
Any chance you could copy it to
	/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/sparse.git
?
	Jeff
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