On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 10:34 +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 03:22:00PM -0300, Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > The linux-arm-kernel[1] project on patches.l.o was using the following 
> > source
> > tree 
> > 
> >   http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm.git
> > 
> > to track committed patches, but fetching that repo seems to have become
> > ridiculously slow, causing git to take ages to update the local copy or get 
> > a
> > new one.  So I'm wondering if there's any mirror of that repo (served via
> > HTTP as we can't fetch git:// URLs from the machine that runs patches.l.o)
> > somewhere with a bigger pipe?  If not, would it be ok to change the source
> > tree of linux-arm-kernel to Linus' tree?
> 
> Most people seem to be experiencing problems with this tree just now.
> 
> The correct result is that the check for merges in rmk's tree should return
> no result in this case -- we simply don't know what is merged in there.
> Can you time it out (or just temporarily turn off fetching of that tree)?

I've turned it off for now as I couldn't find a way to specify a timeout for
git.

> 
> Fetching torvalds/master twice doesn't really give us any more useful
> information than fetching it once.

We only look for the patches sent to the linux-arm-kernel list on RMK's tree;
what I was proposing was to look for them on torvalds/master instead (for the
time being), but if torvalds can't merge from that tree either, it won't buy
us anything.

Cheers,

-- 
Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>

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