Re: is there any faster way to download using git?

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Rahul Garg <rahul.lnmiit@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to download following git branch

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

But it is downloading very slow with speed of 10-40 KB/s. So I was wondering is there any faster way to download this branch.

A small tip that I use all the time. Once you download your first kernel git repository, you can use it as a reference for future kernel clones, with the --reference option. For instance, git clone --reference ${HOME}/linux/torvalds/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/some-other-tree/linux.git I keep one 'torvalds' repo, to track Linus' changes and as reference for all my other repos. -- Ezequiel