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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:10:49 -0500
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc1
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> But you can get git, and do
> 
>    git shortlog v2.6.37..v2.6.38-rc1
> 
> to get the shortlog. Or you can download the whole changelog from
> kernel.org next to the kernel sources. The git approach is better,
> because you can ask for the log for just specific files or
> subdirectories that you are interested in, which turns the flood into
> something much more manageable.

i wish i could do that for everything. i am pulling up to 500MiB every
-rc cycle and mostly codes for hardwares i don't have. not just that
sometimes changes to even pertain to my machine (so no, `git clone
--depth 1' is not what i have in mind).
it would be nice to have a module or a script for git that would work
with kconfig. so instead of pull-config-compile, one would
config-pull-compile. (ok some initial pull for kconfig stuff first but that
would be all). 
i asked this from folks at #git channel and they suggested, because
of the way git works, "git thinks in terms of trees not directories", i
should ask you to see if it's doable?
needless to say that this should also help with the load on kernel.org as
well, since i imagine people that pull from git to compile their own
kernel by definition don't need everything.

regards,