On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 04:02:19PM -0300, Guilherme Salgado wrote: > 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.
I see what you mean -- yes, checking torvalds/master is probably the right thing. It's not always guaranteed that patches posted via linux-arm-kernel will merge in Russell's tree first in any case (though a lot will). I did manage to fetch his tree yesterday, but it was very slow. Cheers ---Dave _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
