Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

On 6/9/06, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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That's like 20% of the original, with all the obvious distribution
advantages.

Btw, does anybody know roughly how much data a initial "cvs co" takes on
the mozilla repo? Git will obviously get the whole history, and that will
inevitably be bigger than getting a single check-out, but it's not
necessarily orders of magnitude bigger.

339MB for initial checkout

It could be that getting a whole git archive is not _that_ much more
expnsive than getting a single version, considering how well history
compresses (eg the kernel git arhive isn't orders of magnitude bigger than
a single compressed tar-ball of the sources).

At that point, it's probably a pretty usable alternative.

(Although, to be fair, we almost certainly have to improve "git-rev-list
--objects --all" performance on that thing, since that's going to
otherwise make it totally impossible to do initial clones using the native
git protocol, and make git look bad).

                        Linus

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