Re: Question about your git habits

Al Viro [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:37:00AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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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).