Problem with downloading kernel repository

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:
> I'm having major problems downloading whole kernel repo.
> Either it is broken, my hg version is (commit
> 470:0ab093b473c5c5ab5f753f4342e0a9e0c12ebfcf)
> or the link has problems (I didn't notice any, so it's highly unlikely)

It's possible the kernel.org webserver times you out. Anyone else
having problems? Firing off a fresh pull to check it here.. yep, that
worked. 4 minutes.

> The symptoms are hg telling me on the update that a certain file is
> broken. I tried to download the tree two times and am starting to get a bit 
> mad at it. My 30KB max link is much too slow for any more tries.
> 
> I have these questions:
> - Is it really broken or is it just me?

It probably needs some fixing.

> - Is there a possibility to download only a part of kernel history?

I should perhaps make it do some sort of chunking. Say 1000 changesets
at a time. I'll think about it.

> I'm really interested in 2.6.12 and beyond, not everything that's there.
> - Maybe there could be a *ly tarball of history or something?

Actually you can download the early history tarball and then pull on
top of that:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mpm/linux-hg.tar.gz

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