Hi. On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I've have git trees against a few versions besides Linus', and have just > > moved all but Linus' to staging to help until you can get your new > > hardware. If others were encouraged to do the same, it might help a lot? > > > > Not really. In fact, it would hardly help at all. > > The two things git users can do to help is: > > 1. Make sure your alternatives file is set up correctly; > 2. Keep your trees packed and pruned, to keep the file count down. > > If you do this, the load imposed by a single git tree is fairly negible.
Sorry for the slow reply, and the ignorance... what's an alternatives file? I've never heard of them before. Regards, Nigel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
