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Re: How to get the latest git sources



At Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:37:46 +1000, Paul Collins wrote:
> 
> Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > Hints to what rules most, from a user's perspective, who does nothing
> > more than getting the lates git sources and build a kernel .deb with them?
> 
> Just do
> 
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> Now you have a fresh up-to-date Linux tree in ./linux-2.6
> 
> To keep it up to date run "git pull" in the root of this new tree.

Once you have that, how do you get for example 2.6.16 out of it?  I
assume you can get all previous 2.6 versions this way, right?
And if you get for example 2.6.15, 2.6.16 and 2.6.17-rc1, will/can
hardlinks be used between the repositories to save space?

Ruben



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