Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Sep 21 2006 - 18:25:28 EST


On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:00:48PM -0700, David Lang wrote:

> for the tarball users they would have to grab
> multiple patches to get from the last thing that they have to whatever is
> current.

ketchup solves that problem. One command brings any tree up to current.

> also people could be behind a firewall that prevents git from working properly,
> for them tarballs and patches are the right way of doing things.

If they can't git through a firewall, they won't be able to wget a tarball through
it either.

Dave
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