Re: Question about your git habits

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Re: Question about your git habits

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2008-02-23 01:57:04

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).

Re: Question about your git habits

From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2008-02-23 02:09:37

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:51:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Al Viro [off-list ref] writes:
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:37:00AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
quoted
quoted
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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