Background

In Nov. 2015, kernel.org announced that Fastly(a CDN provider) offered CDN service to provide fast download for Linux kernel releases.

How to use this feature

  1. Download Linux bundle

     $ wget -c --no-check-certificate https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/clone.bundle In Shanghai, it only takes about __20min__ to download the bundle.

  2. Verify downloaded bundle

     $ git bundle verify clone.bundle

  3. Clone from the bundle

     $ git clone clone.bundle linux

  4. Change ‘origin’ point to the live git repo

     $ cd linux
 $ git remote remove origin
 $ git remote add origin https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
 $ git pull origin master

Now, everything is done.

What is git bundle?

refer this link

References

[1] https://www.kernel.org/category/site-news.html
[2] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle