On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:29:35PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 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?
It works for me (instead of "git prune" I was using
"git-repack -a -d -l -f").
> Regards,
>
> Nigel
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