[PATCH] update Documentation/sparse.txt

From: Harald Welte
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 12:00:34 EST


On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:34:51PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:28:34PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> > btw, where can I get the latest sparse release?
> >
> > linux-2.6.14-rc2/Documentation/sparse.txt still points to a dead
> > directory at
> > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/
> > which now seems to be 404.
> >
> > Are there no snapshots available? Didn't anyone convre the bitkeeper
> > repository to git or something else? I'm a bit puzzled.
>
>
> I use
>
> rsync -avz --progress --delete \
> rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git/ \
> .git

Thanks. Please consider this patch for the mainline kernel:


[DOCUMENTATION] sparse no longer uses bk, but git

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
commit 37df3d8b065579042d32a866ae6a00cd57c5812b
tree dd0e013e4744201b2ae13b38e0186477fd2eb47d
parent 0410f33b62b892379270539b189577126ea56ffe
author Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Do, 22 Sep 2005 18:58:49 +0200
committer Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Do, 22 Sep 2005 18:58:49 +0200

Documentation/sparse.txt | 9 ++-------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt
--- a/Documentation/sparse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sparse.txt
@@ -51,14 +51,9 @@ or you don't get any checking at all.
Where to get sparse
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-With BK, you can just get it from
-
- bk://sparse.bkbits.net/sparse
-
-and DaveJ has tar-balls at
-
- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/
+With git, you can just get it from

+ rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git

Once you have it, just do

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