Closed namliz closed 7 years ago
It looks like the simplest possible thing is to just check for changes to where HEAD points - via http: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/refs/heads/master
(plaintext responds with 1001354ca34179f3db924eb66672442a173147dc
which of course is the latest commit)
git clone --depth 1
completes in under a minute (doesn't grab the massive history in the repository) as opposed to a regular clone that takes almost an hour(!).
Poll https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/ and pull on change