Re: Linus GIT tree disappeared from http://www.kernel.org/git/?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 September 2005 13:37, Sean wrote:
>On Thu, September 22, 2005 12:12 pm, Gene Heskett said:
>> Well, I think what I was trying to ask but got lost in the bushes was
>> "do I have a valid download?"  and, how do I go about keeping it upto
>> date now that I have it?  I've read about half the git.txt stuff in
>> the Documentation dir, but nothing sticks out as being the magic
>> updater command.
>
>Gene,
>
>In order to update your copy of the kernel repository just run "git
> pull". Unfortunately there still seem to be some issues with
> kernel.org, hopefully that'll be fixed up soon.
>
>The warning you're getting from git about "alternates" will be fixed in
>the next release of git.   You _could_ use your current version of git
> to track the official git repository and get this fix before it's
> officially released:
>
>$ cd ~
>$ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ git-repo
>$ cd git-repo
>$ git checkout
>$ make install
>
>Which should upgrade your current version of git to the very latest.
>After which you can upgrade git whenever you like by running:
>
>$ cd ~/git-repo
>$ git pull
>$ make install
>
>Cheers,
>Sean

Thanks, I've printed this, and as soon as BDI-4.29.iso is here so I
have some bandwidth, I'll give it a shot.  But I think I'll do it in
/usr/src rather than ~=/root.  Is that going to be a problem?

-- 
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