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Message-ID: <20080223020913.GL27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:09:13 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, git@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about your git habits
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:51:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:37:00AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >> >do you tend to clone the entire repository repeatedly into a series
> >> >of separate working directories
> >>
> >> Too time consuming on consumer drives with projects the size of Linux.
> >
> > git clone -l -s
> >
> > is not particulary slow...
>
> How big is a checkout of a single revision of kernel these days,
> compared to a well-packed history since v2.6.12-rc2?
>
> The cost of writing out the work tree files isn't ignorable and
> probably more than writing out the repository data (which -s
> saves for you).
Depends... I'm using ext2 for that and noatime everywhere, so that might
change the picture, but IME it's fast enough... As for the size, it gets
to ~320Mb on disk, which is comparable to the pack size (~240-odd Mb).
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