Re: "git archve --format=tar" output changed from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2.1

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@kernel.org>
Date: Jan 31, 2013, 17:52 UTC
Message-ID: <510AAF4F.6060201@kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130131174103.GA20111@kroah.com>

On 31/01/13 12:41 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> Ugh, uploading a 431Mb file, over a flaky wireless connection (I end up
> doing lots of kernel releases while traveling), would be a horrible
> change.  I'd rather just keep using the same older version of git that
> kernel.org is running instead.

Well, we do accept compressed archives, so you would be uploading about 80MB instead of 431MB, but that would still be a problem for anyone releasing large tarballs over unreliable connections. I know you routinely do 2-3 releases at once, so that would still mean uploading 120-180MB.

I don't have immediate statistics on how many people release using "kup --tar", but I know that at least you and Linus rely on that exclusively.

Regards,

-- 
Konstantin Ryabitsev
Systems Administrator
Linux Foundation, kernel.org
Montréal, Québec