tag&track [Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc1]

From: nobody
Date: Thu Jan 20 2011 - 22:23:21 EST


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:42:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:10 PM, nobody <darwinskernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > i wish i could do that for everything. i am pulling up to 500MiB every
> > -rc cycle and mostly codes for hardwares i don't have.
>
> No you're not.

... i was lying.

> So no, you're not pulling 500MiB every -rc cycle, unless you're doing
> something stupid like using http (which will trigger a re-fetch, since
> I end up repacking a couple of times a release) or always re-cloning.

re-cloning to reclaim disk space. but disk space is not the only thing;
i can compile a tar release all in ram (1G) but re-cloning 388M into a
build directory there is a no go.

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