Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Sun Feb 07 2010 - 13:40:09 EST


On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:32:02AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Another option might be to stop generating the .bz2 files, of course.
> Anybody who cares more about network bandwidth than CPU use (ie people who
> would seem to prefer bz2) would be better off using git instead, which
> packs things _way_ better, by virtue of being much more incremental.

The .bz2 files are downloaded by the ketchup script. I use it sometimes
to get a specific kernel tree version on a machine without having to
look up the urls to download them manually. So there are users for the
.bz2 files too ;-)

Joerg

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