Hi again. On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 21:17 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Just a minor correction; it's the "alternates" file > (objects/info/alternates).
I went looking for documentation on how to use the alternates feature, and found an email from September 2005 (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/2860.html) that says: <quote> /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$tree Of course, you may have more than one such $tree. The suggestion by Linus was to do (please do not do this yet -- that is what this message is about): $ cd /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$tree $ cat /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6/objects \ >objects/info/alternates $ GIT_DIR=. git prune </quote> Are these instructions still correct in the case of master.kernel.org? 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/
