From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 00:45:26 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: [PATCH] update 'getting sparse' info.
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~30721
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a55028ff74356895a50359dd9fb74d523b66723f;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

[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>
---

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/