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authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2007-03-08 19:45:26 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-08 16:47:58 -0800
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parentfe69933652562f093ccde600cecf234930c01932 (diff)
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[PATCH] update 'getting sparse' info.
- point to the sparse webpage - use git:// instead of rsync:// Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sparse.txt10
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diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt
index f9c99c9a54f9..1a3bdc27d95e 100644
--- a/Documentation/sparse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sparse.txt
@@ -45,11 +45,15 @@ special.
Getting sparse
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-With git, you can just get it from
+You can get latest released versions from the Sparse homepage at
+http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/josh/sparse/
- rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git
+Alternatively, you can get snapshots of the latest development version
+of sparse using git to clone..
-and DaveJ has tar-balls at
+ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/sparse.git
+
+DaveJ has hourly generated tarballs of the git tree available at..
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/